Paris, Alain A. C. Mazo; New York, Leon Amiel, 1972. Large in-4 sheet, folded blanket, bise canvas box-case.
First edition of this collection of professional anecdotes of the famous printer-lithographer relating to his meetings with the great artists of the twentieth century. Preface by Jacques Prévert in the form of a poem entitled "The Heart at Work".
It is adorned with 25 original full-page lithographs by Brianchon, Masson, Beaudin, Fenosa, Estève, Matisse (unpublished), Guiramand, Tereshkovitch, Braque, Derain, Picasso, Jenkins (double-page), Miró, Cocteau, Minaux, Villon , Chagall, Giacometti, Buffet, Wunderlich, Delvaux, Vasarely, Manessier, Lapicque and Sutherland.
Edition of 800 copies on Arches wove paper, this one (n ° ??) with an autograph dedication signed by Fernand Mourlot to Étienne Potel dated April 1973.
Some rednesses at the cover
Cramer (Chagall), 90.- Cramer (Miró), 156.- Cramer (Picasso), 153.- Duthuit (Matisse), 57. Jacob (Delvaux), 58.