CONFERENCE SUR
L'ALPHABET DE LA GRANDE GUERRE d'ANDRE HELLE
Par M. Philippe Bourdier (Université d'Orléans)
Au Musée de l'école (Chartres), les 22 et 23 mars 2014.
L'Alphabet de la grande guerre est intégralement, et très bien, numérisé sur le site de la Wolfsonian-Florida International University.
Pourriez-vous m'aider, svp. Je voudrais écrire l'article sur ce livre. Livre paru en 1916? Quel est le tirage? Dans quelle technique les illustrations faites? La chromolithographie? Bien cordialement. P.S. Pardonnez-moi mon Popoff-français))
RépondreSupprimer- Helle's Alphabet of the Great War was published by Ed Berger-Levrault (Paris-Nancy) by the very end of 1916 / beginning 1917 so that its distribution in France mostly concerns 1917.
RépondreSupprimer- Chromolithography seems to be the printing technique and justifies the amazing bright colours throughout the album.
- Nobody knows the exact print run but we did notice (among our copies) different qualities of papers - probably due to paper-shortage in time of war. We hazard the guess that Berger-Levrault resorted to a higher print than usual (whatever the quantity might be ? 2000 ?) in connection with the overwhelming subject.
- This book remains rather unusual on the antique book market.
Should you publish an article about this volume, we would gladly receive it and comment it on our blog.