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Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 64, 1938

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Content includes:
Trips in France
Advertising of Shell-Mex oil in England
“It’s a great success, the new Shell lubricating oil.”
Two Italian alphabets from the 16th and 17th centuries
The Marly Albums
A map of the Marly parc (18th century)
Sacred Humor from the Far East
From Tree to Book
Solarized photograph by Marcel Bovis.
Drawings by Mentally-Deficient Children
Painting by a Mentally-handicapped Child
Typographical Delirium
My Portraits
Ambroise Vollard
Sonnet. “Little Dancer” (Degas Drawings, Ambroise Vollard’s Collection)
Invitation to an exhibition of the Lewitt-Him works
The Graphics News
Drawing by Géa Augsbourg, from “Our World and Its People”
The Easter Island Tablets
In Foreign Magazines
A New Photocomposition Machine

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Year: 1938
  • Size: 240mm x 310mm

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Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 64, 1938
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