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1.parchment
The Fifteen Joys of Marriage is a satire on married life out of men's perspective, a parody on a religous book titled The Fifteen Joys of our Lady. It is anonymous, but some believe that it was authored by Antoine de la Sale in the 1460's.
The edition I am going to present here is, in my opinion, a beautiful one.
The typography and printing on the gorgeous Rives paper is by Alberto Tallone (whose family is still running a printing house today in Italy) while he was still in Paris.
The illustrations are wood cuts by René ben Sussan who ought to be well known among Limited Editions Club collectors. In my opinion, he is undeservedly unappreciated nowadays. His Cyrano de Bergerac that I posted photos of a year ago is another beauty, however illustrated by black and white etchings.
The hand colouring of the wood cuts was performed by Edmond Vairel, one of the very best when it comes to pochoir. Among other books coloured by him you will find Henri Matisse's Jazz.
All in all, I am very pleased to have this book in my library.
The edition I am going to present here is, in my opinion, a beautiful one.
The typography and printing on the gorgeous Rives paper is by Alberto Tallone (whose family is still running a printing house today in Italy) while he was still in Paris.
The illustrations are wood cuts by René ben Sussan who ought to be well known among Limited Editions Club collectors. In my opinion, he is undeservedly unappreciated nowadays. His Cyrano de Bergerac that I posted photos of a year ago is another beauty, however illustrated by black and white etchings.
The hand colouring of the wood cuts was performed by Edmond Vairel, one of the very best when it comes to pochoir. Among other books coloured by him you will find Henri Matisse's Jazz.
All in all, I am very pleased to have this book in my library.
2dlphcoracl
Absolutely beautiful and typical of Alberto Tallone Editions - elegant and understated. How I wish they would publish an occasional book in the English language.
3.parchment
Perhaps they would print a book in English if enough customers asked them to?
Personally, I would like to have a fine edition of Seneca's On the Shortness of Life.
Personally, I would like to have a fine edition of Seneca's On the Shortness of Life.
4featherwate
Wonderful conjunction of talents.
5.parchment
When I recently researched René Ben Sussan on the net, I stumbled on a book listing: "Thieves' road, Sussan, Rene Ben, Published by Hutchinson (1961)". Does anyone here know anything about it. If the author is OUR René, what is the book about? I didn't know that he was an author as well as illustrator.
6featherwate
>5 .parchment:
It's not by our Ben. It's an English translation of La route des voleurs (1959)
It's not by our Ben. It's an English translation of La route des voleurs (1959)
the debut work of Algerian-born French novelist René Sussan (born 1925, still alive) who under the pseudonym René Reouven went on to become one of France's leading writers of policiers, as well as a Sherlock Holmes pasticheur and a writer of speculative fiction.
7.parchment
>6 featherwate: Thank you for clearing that up. I just wonder why René Sussan became René Ben Sussan in England?
8featherwate
>7 .parchment:
At a guess some inattentive Abe or Amazon bookseller listed it wrongly and as is the way of the internet her error will keep turning up until the end of time. Authorship was correctly attributed in England (and America):
At a guess some inattentive Abe or Amazon bookseller listed it wrongly and as is the way of the internet her error will keep turning up until the end of time. Authorship was correctly attributed in England (and America):
