Edition Research: Illustrated Books and Portfolios

Edition-specific notes on illustrated books, print suites and portfolios represented in the Breething Books catalog. Compare issue statements, print processes, signatures and physical contents before comparing copies.

These pages are permanent references. Availability and condition belong to the individual item record; a reference page remains useful after that copy sells.

Edition and portfolio notes

• Picasso de 1916 à 1961: Edition and Signature Notes
• Diego Rivera’s 1946 Mexican Frescoes Portfolio: Contents and Format
• Matisse’s Cinquante Dessins (1920): Etching, Reproductions and Copy Evidence
• Matisse’s Jazz: The 1983 MoMA–Braziller Facsimile
• Miró’s Tapís de Tarragona (1972): Deluxe Issue and Lithograph Suite
• Chagall’s La Poésie (1976): Limitation, Lithograph and Loose-Sheet Format
• Cartier-Bresson’s Vowels (1996): Separate Portfolio and Book Issue
• Henry Miller’s Insomnia (1970), Edition G: Book, Broadsides and Box
• William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience, the 1955 Trianon Press facsimile

How to use these notes

Start with the publication date, publisher and issue statement. Separate original prints from reproductions, and handwritten signatures from printed or facsimile signatures. For portfolios, count compositions and physical sheets separately and record the text, wrappers and housing.

Catalog-based information is identified as such. Museum references provide comparisons; their descriptions do not certify a different copy. Unresolved counts and uncertain media remain explicitly identified.

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