Éluard, Paul - Miró, Joan. - A toute épreuve. Geneva, G. Cra - Lot 520

Éluard, Paul - Miró, Joan. - A toute épreuve. Geneva, G. Cramer, 1958. Quarto, publisher's cardboard binding covered with a color-illustrated dust jacket, wood-grain paper endpapers, and a parchment spine with gilt lettering, and publisher's slipcase—[53 leaves in total, including blank pages]. Illustrated with 80 woodcut plates in color and black (including the cover plate and 4 double-page plates). Printed in an edition of 130 copies, all on hand-made pure rag vellum from the Papeteries d’Arches; this is one of the 80, following the 20 preliminary copies (No. 75). (Patrick Cramer, Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné of Illustrated Books, no. 49). Included is: a 22-page booklet with text in English (in a gray cover with flaps) published in New York by George Braziller in 1984, presenting the collaborative work that developed between the Poet, the Artist, and the Publisher for the book *A toute épreuve*.