Oui, cela doit être ce qu'ils appellent le "PX Bookplate Edition".
Pour le fun, et vous donner une idée des heures de lecture qui vous attendront : voici le texte du justificatif de ce tirage :
"This artisanal, offset lithographic reproduction of the original drawing(s) for
The History of Art appears as a signed bookplate addition to the exclusive "fine art edition" of the cartoonist Chris Ware's
Monograph, published by Rizzoli Books in the autumn of 2017 (and remaindered shortly thereafter). It differs from that book's remaindered edition only by its ridiculously inflated price tag and the inclusion of this piece of printed cardboard - which has, nonetheless, been personally vandalized by Mr Ware for those who are keen on such things. (Just for the record, Mr Ware is not, generally, keen on such things, as it requires that he stand in a stooped position at his dining room table writing his name over and over again until it is leeched of all meaning, said name then serving not as the standard identifier of his consciousness and accrued life's experience but as more of a psychologically accusatory if not cosmically impugning gesture of arrogance and futility, a circumstance which he experiences every morning of his life anyway and which thus ensures especial physical and psychic pain, to say nothing of amusing his wife and daughter for all the wrong reasons.
This is, however, number xxx of an edition of 550, and is, thus, relunctantly authorized by said corpus (signature) "
Il n'est pas fait mention de cette édition sur le site de Rizzoli, et le "ridiculously inflated price tag"... est le même que pour l'édition normale. Sans doute un geste incognito de l'auteur pour ses premiers fans acheteurs ?
