Nouvelles aventures de Pelby

One of three copies printed after thirty copies on pure vellum, the only large paper printed.

"For what news ? Because there were others before these, but they went up in smoke. At that time Pelby invented. Now that he executes his comics on plans and on order (instead of painting, to join it, the reality of the Grand Flou), he only has his life to freely imagine. But it is much more imaginative than he is. We do not invent characters like Doctor Chiche, and - whether in San Francisco or at Buttes-Chaumont - we do not easily escape from the circle formed by a string of ladies and young ladies who are difficult to invent. Life is a succession of surprises and possibilities: how to anticipate? How to choose? We would have to believe that we are dreaming (that would be too good to be true) or at least to be double. And what we are looking for is the unique, the return to the emotion of square one."