Laurens, Henri. - Lukian von Samosata (here: Lucien). Dialogues. == sync, corrected by elderman == @elder_man 152 pp., 2 Bl. With 24 original woodcuts on panels, 8 coloured original wood cut vignettes and 1 double-leaf coloured woodcut panel (table index) by Henri Laurens. 39 x 29 cm. Loose bow in illustrative. OCouple (jointed) and OPPshuber (somewhat rubbed). Paris, Tériade, (1951). Smoke 127. Star 57. Klipstein and Kornfeld, Tériade 41. Peoples 33. Strachan 336. – One of 250 numbers. Copies (total edition 275 ex.). Printmark signed by the artist. "In his use of several blocks for tonal and linear effects, Laurens shows a remarkable technical virtuosity" (The Artist and the Book 157). With the double sheet in the appendix called "Table de matière" in the case of peoples, here referred to as "Table des gravures", which contains twice 12 colored illustrations in the respective colors of the four parts. The woodcuts assigned to the different dialogue groups are different in the timbre depending on the group: the "Dialogues des Dieux" are assigned to brown-black-white woodcut, the "dialogues marins" to black-green-blue woodcut.The "dialogues des morts" to Black-grey-white timbercuts, the 'dialogue of the Courtisanes' to yellow-orange-black woodcutes. – Very good specimen.