Embalming - Manuscript artist's book.

[Voici une impression tres rapide du travail des "embaumes".] Square 8vo, 22cm, unique manuscript book with tipped-in photographs, L'Espace St Jacques, St Quentin, 1997.

Limp paper covers, ink manuscript, 36 black-and-white and 6 original colour photographs tipped-in, mostly one to a page, demonstrating embalming materials, embalming maquettes. Covers with an additional photographi. Fine copy.

Photographs from an exhibition of`the art of embalming that took place over 300 days at L'Espace St Jacques. Some of the photographs are perhaps disturbing.