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Desmazières, Érik (b.1948) & Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) La Biblioteca de Babel
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$1,800 - $2,500
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$2,200
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Description
Desmazières, Érik (b.1948) & Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
La Biblioteca de Babel / La Bibliothêque de Babel.

N.p.: Le Livre Contemporain et les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, and others, ca. 1997.

Presentation copy, limited edition, folio, copy number 17 of 37 reserved for the artist and various collaborators; illustrated with ten folding etchings on Arches paper; the first plate present in two states; title inscribed by the artist in pencil, "For Philip and José, with very best wishes, Houston, October 31, 1998"; also signed on the colophon, with Borges's text in Spanish and French, English translation by Néstor Ibarra; housed in the publisher's cloth clamshell box; 12 x 9 1/2 in.

This remarkable set of etchings by French engraver and printmaker Érik Desmazières recalls works by Piranesi and M.C. Escher. His images capture the interlacing hexagonal architecture of Borges's imagined library.
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