Portfolio with complete text printed on Arches and 30 engravings on imitation Japon nacré, 1934 (printed later). 330x255 mm; 13x10 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
One of 220 numbered copies. Signed in pencil and numbered 120 on the justification page, opposite the title page. Printed by Etienne Braillard, Geneva, 1974. Published by Éditions Argillet, Paris. Original black linen portfolio folder and slipcase.
Dalí created the 30 prints for this suite in 1933-34, under the direction of the publisher Albert Skira. The edition called for 220 copies of the portfolio altogether (the first 40 numbers in the edition contained an additional suite of the 30 prints on which Dalí added remarqués in drypoint). However, only approximately half the edition was created. The plates passed from Skira to another Parisian publisher, Henri Petiet, who then sold them to Pierre Argillet, who directed the publication of the current edition in 1974. This current edition was to complete the unfinished edition of 1934. Michler/Löpsinger 11-54; Field 34-2.
