Classical Modernism Pablo Picasso 1 lithograph, 3 etchings, and 24 text woodcuts. 1956. in: Chronique des temps héroiques. Edited by Louis Broder, Paris. Sheet dimensions 24 x 17 cm. Bound in white marocco with gilt-stamped spine title and black geometric marocco applications on covers. Red marocco doublure with gilt-stamped monogram L-P. L. (Spine and joints minimally rubbed. Binding signed: J. Clasat. - Inconspicuously browned. Excellent impressions. Mourlot 271, Bloch 743 and 802-804, Cramer 78, Monod 6297 - First edition (published posthumously). - Second volume of the series Écrits et Gravures. - One of 150 numbered copies signed by Picasso in the printer's mark (GA 170). - Like Picasso, Max Jacob lived in the Bateau-Lavoir Rue Ravignan in 1907. He was one of Picasso's first and closest friends. "Max Jacob talks about the Futurists, the Surrealists, his friends Apollinaire and Picasso and, of course, about Paul Guillaume as a collector of African art. Picasso made three drypoints for this book in honour of his friend, who died young, on 7 September 1956: Max Jacob writing, in back view and in profile. A lithographic portrait taken in Vallauris on 23 September served as the frontispiece ... The book is also illustrated with 24 woodcuts by Georges Aubert after Picasso drawings" (cat. Basel 1995). 1 lithograph, 3 etchings, and 24 text woodcuts. Bound in white morocco with gilt title and black geometric morocco applications on covers. Doublure in red morocco with gilt monogram L-P. L.(Spine and joints minimally rubbed.) Binding signed: J. Clasat. - First edition (published posthumously). - Second volume of the series "Écrits et Gravures". - One of 150 numbered copies signed by Picasso in the imprint (total ed. 170). - Like Picasso, Max Jacob lived in the Bateau-Lavoir Rue Ravignan in 1907. He was one of Picasso's first and closest friends. "Max Jacob narrates about the Futurists, the Surrealists, about his friends Apollinaire and Picasso and, of course, about Paul Guillaume, as a collector of African art. Picasso made three drypoint works for this book in honour of his friend, who died at an early age, on 7 September 1956: Max Jacob writing, in back view and in profile. A lithographic portrait made in Vallauris on 23 September served as the frontispiece ... The book is also illustrated with 24 woodcuts by Georges Aubert after Picasso drawings" (exh. cat. Basel 1995). - A few pages with offset from the illustrations. Paper slightly browned in the margins. Good copy in decorative hand binding. 3000