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020 - MM2 La Fin du Monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D. Fernand Léger (illustrated by) Blaise Cendrars (text by) Editions de la Sirène; Paris, France 1919 318mm unpaged Edition: #548/1200 Notes: Illustrated with 22 pochoirs, 6 with line-block reproductions of ink drawings. Bound in original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Preserved in a new yellow clam-shell cloth box. One of the key illustrated books of the twentieth century, Legér's La Fin du Monde is the essence of modernity. The text was designed as a film script by Blaise Cendrars. The mise-en-page [page layout] and the colour Legér illustrations, combining Cubism and Futurism.