MONACO - "Proverbes Monégasques" / Large red velvet-covered - Lot 452

MONACO - "Proverbes Monégasques" / Large red velvet-covered slipcase (27 x 39 x 6.5 cm), titled on front cover and spine (gilt engraving fading), cream moiré interior, containing the book "Proverbes Monégasques", "Aux Editions Azur Création", Marseille, 1994, justified copy "HC" (hors commerce) for an edition strictly limited to 395 copies (only a few copies announced as hors commerce for the artist), 224 p sheets (24.5 x 35 cm), unpaginated, in soft cover plus 16 prints out of text - The book is composed as follows: presentation (4 p), preface by His Serene Highness Prince Rainier of Monaco preceded by the Monegasque Coat of Arms (4 p), introduction by His Excellency René Novella (4 p), presentation of Hubert Clérissi (artist "enfant du Pays") with biography (12 p), proverbs selected by 30 Monegasque personalities in alphabetical order (4 p for each personality, with Monegasque translation, 120 p), a chapter "Other Monegasque proverbs" (8 p), a chapter "Les proverbes dans la vie monégasque" (4 p) 16 hors texte prints by Hubert Clérissi, each presented in a 4 p insert with a cover illustrated with a drawing by Clérissi (same drawing for the cover of all inserts) and a vignette drawing by Clérissi on the back, with inside a proverb in both languages illustrated with 4 vignette drawings by Clérissi, the justification of the print run (4 p)