Description

From the first edition, one of only 625 copies, this being one of 400 sur vélin pur fil Lafuma.

Dostoïevski is considered to be one of the greatest Russian novelists, he influenced many artists, writers and philosophers.

Published as a series of line cuts of Cocteau’s early drawings, dedicated to Picasso with the apology: “Poets do not draw. They untie the knots in handwriting and then retie them differently.”

A line cut is printed from a letterpress printing plate made from a line drawing by a photoengraving process. Also called line engraving.