-1920 Histoire Sans Paroles

Masereel’s wordless novel, Histoire Sans Paroles (Story without Words), was initially printed in a limited edition of 155 copies.

It was republished in 1922 in a limited edition (800 copies) by Kurt Wolff under the German title of Geschichte Ohne Worte, and then in Trade editions in 1927 and 1933 and later.

• Title: Histoire sans Paroles (Story without Words)
• Author and Illustrator: Frans Masereel
• Introduction:
• Date of publication: 1920
• Publisher: Editions du Sablier
• Place of publication: Geneve
• Printer:
• Copyright: Artist?
• Dimensions: 16 x 12 cm
• Binding: hard cover and paperback
• Language: French titles, etc
• Paginated: unpaginated
• Printed: verso and recto ????
• Edition: limited
• Printed from the original matrix:
• Description: 136 pages, [64] leaves, [2] pages ([2] pages at end (advertisements): illustrations; 17 cm; 60 images drawn and engraved on wood

Limitation page

• sixteen copies on Japon Impérial numbered by hand from 1 to 16. #1 includes the continuation of the sixty original drawings.
• four copies on Japon Impérial, hors-commerce marked ABCD. All the copies on Japan are signed by the author.
• thirty-five copies on China numbered in Roman numerals from I to XXXV.
• One hundred copies on Ingres d’Arches numbered in Arabic numerals from 1 to 100. – paper back

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