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ORIGINAL EDITION of one of the rarest secret booklets published by the Collège de Pataphysique.
ONE OF 61 PRINTED ON YELLOW, GREEN & BLUE ANHISTORIC PAPER - this one on blue paper - after 29 copies on Grand-Charte de Lys Démocratique enriched with a jay feather by Courton.

This copy includes 12 original photographs by Emmanuel Peilletblack and white silver prints (88 x 88 mm) numbered in black ink on the reverse.

Complete with partridge feather stamped "Secret Optimatique" on the 4th leaf.

A number of letters relating to the edition are enclosed - the college envelope has been stamped with an optimatic secret:

• A visiting card from Jean H. Sainmont - Provéditeur Général Adjoint et Rotateur du Collège de Pataphysique (pseudonym of Emmanuel Peillet) with this autograph note signed: " With apologies for the delay & pataphysical compliments"
• a handwritten letter signed Sainmont on yellow college headed paper, corps des provéditeurs rogation, "The College issues Secret Publications, which are not subject to any control or subscription: they are sent arbitrarily, without justification or recourse, to certain Members of the College, who must undertake absolutely not to divulge them."
• The subscription form announcing the publication and bearing the secret stamp: "Le Chateau de Courton is to be illustrated with 12 original photographs. However, given the cost of photographic paper, this cannot be done free of charge. Therefore, those who send in their photographic contribution of 730 francs will receive a complete copy. The others will receive a copy without images [...].
• The circular presenting the Secret Communications reserved:" to an elite of its Members, duly tried and tested [...] and will their personal Pataphysics find nectarous & ambrosial nourishment in these documents, ignored by the vulgar, even if selected?. […] these non-public & internal publications must be protected from all scrutiny, even favourable, & under no circumstances must they be communicated to anyone."

Nice outfit.