Nadine Dumain Binding - Lot 15

Nadine Dumain Binding Les Fleurs du Mal Binding Clarkson The book is a complete edition with the forbidden parts. It is a 1921 edition. It includes all the works, a bibliographical introduction and documents concerning the 1857 trial. Fully restored to the Clarkson binding. The book measures 20.2 cm x 14 cm x 4 cm thick. Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des arts et industries graphiques Estienne in the gilding gilding section in 1990, after five years of study, Nadine Dumain worked for eight years in Arnaud Arnaud Seydoux's workshop in Paris. In 1999, she opened her own bookbinding and restoration workshop alongside the Moulin du Verger paper mill in Verger paper mill in Puymoyen, Charente. It was while working on the development of a special paper paper for bookbinding, she met Christopher Clarkson Clarkson, one of the internationally renowned bookbinders internationally renowned bookbinders who contributed to the rescue of the Florence library after the Florence library after the Arno flood of 1966. Faced with the magnitude of the task involved in to restore new bindings to the books rescued from the waters and the impossibility of restoring them to their original to their original appearance, he began to think techniques and the materials to be used to produce them. materials to be used. The principle of "conservation binding" was born, functional and solid, based on the strength of the the strength of the stitching, the non-use of glue, flexibility flexibility, reversibility and high standards of quality of raw materials. This is the binding of the 21st century, created by Nadine Dumain, totally natural and timeless. we offer you on a work by Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. The binding is fully reversible and removable. The stitching is on very strong nerves, and offers a perfect opening. The spine is finished in fine woven linen linen ensures great sturdiness while retaining flexibility of the spine. The cover paper was developed at Moulin du Verger. It is made from flax beaten in a pile with a mallet and air-dried air-dried. The 260-gram paper has excellent mechanical resistance to folding and abrasion resistance. The marbling is by Nadine Dumain using the suminagashi technique suminagashi technique using natural pigments. Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) is a collection of poems covering almost all of his verse output from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Published on June 21, 1857, it immediately scandalized French society. The author was subjected to a trial. The verdict sentenced him to a heavy fine reduced by the intervention of the Empress the censorship of six plays deemed immoral. immoral. From 1861 to 1868, the work was republished in three successive versions, enriched with new poems. It would be almost a century nearly a century later, in May 1949.