Poésie de Mots Inconnus
Ilia Zdanevich
French and Georgian. 1894–1974
Letterpress text by various poets throughout, several sheets with additional overprinting in color, each illustrated by various artists with linocut, woodcut, lithograph, etching, burin engraving or drypoint. The folded copy, loose as issued in paper wrappers, covered with vellum wrappers with a stamped vignette on the front by Ribemont-Dessaignes and titled “Ne coupez pas mes pages” [Don’t cut my pages], enveloped in a two-part vellum packet with the blind-stamped titled on the spine. "COMPAGNON XV OSCAR DOMINGUEZ" printed in violet on the colophon
Gift of Helen and Sam Zell