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The Strange Case of Dr. Jeykell and Mr. Hyde

Item date(s): 1994

Robert Louis Stevenson  - (author)
Didier Mutel  - (book artist)


Pages: 96pp
Size: 300mm, oblong
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist
Edition: #41/61


Place publication: Paris, France
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
The complete colophon is shown on the spine of the book: This book is part of a limited edition of 61 copies distributing as follows:

- 10 head copies, illustrated with 10 original copper engravings, numbered from I to X in Roman numerals. These copies, printed on 250- and 160 gram velin d'Arches, are enlarged with 30 full-page plates, including: 10 original engravings preceding the text, and 20 other original study-engravings. All these plates were touched up with walnut stain by Didier Mutel.

-40 copies illustrated ith 10 original copper engravings, numbered from 11 to 50. These copies, printed on 250- and 160 gram velin d'Arches,

-10 out of series copies, reserved for the artist and close collaborators, illustrated with 10 original copper engraving, numbered from HC I to HC X in Romal numerals.

These copies, printed on 250- and 160 gram velin d'Arches are enlarged with 30 full-page plates, including: 10 original engravings preceding the text, and 20 other original study-engravings. All these plates were touched up with walnut stain by Didier Mutel.

-1 single copy, numbered 61, presenting all the engraving stages.

The text set in Baskerville was processed, paid out, photoengraved on copper and revised by Didier Mutel. It was printed in the Ateliers Leblanc, Rue Sant-Jacques, Paris.

1st to 8th signatures separate; 9-14th signatures attached accordion style; 15th signature separate; 16th and 17 signatures blank, being padding.

Ursus catalogue 278, Number 63.

Illustrated as item 61 in Ursus Books catalogue 261"Classics in Contemporary and Modern Art. n.d.

Illustrated on p59 of Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art by Betty Bright, 2012.

Included in the special exhibition at the Library of Congress on 19th April, 2013 for CODEX Mexico. (French edition)

See also the French version of the same book. GB10317

Ref: GB/14184







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