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Défense de savoir (Prohibition of Knowing)
- Medium
- Book with one collotype reproducing a drawing by de Chirico, "The Poet and the Philosopher", 1913 (frontispiece); letterpress text; publisher’s original letterpress paper cover bound in. Bespoke binding designed by Hugnet and fabricated by Christy: covers with goat leather, blind tooling, blind blocking, and paint, front and back both holding a pane of shattered glass between two panes of lead glass; decalcomania in gouache on metallic-paper endleaves; silk-ribbon bookmark and gilt page edges.
- Dimensions
- Book (closed): 10 3/4 × 8 9/16 × 13/16 in. (27.3 × 21.8 × 2 cm); pages (dimensions vary; largest), largest: 10 1/2 × 8 1/8 in. (26.6 × 20.7 cm)
- Genre
- Illustrated books
