Text by Gaston Bachelard. Illustreated by Chagall, including 24 color lithographed plates & 96 reproductions in black & white. 14x10¼, color lithographed pictorial boards.

American issue of Dessins pour la Bible, printed in France by Draeger Fréres, the color lithographs produced by Mourlot Fréres. Issued as Verve double number 37/38, the illustrations by Chagall deal with biblical themes which he had in general not covered in his 1956 work Illustrations for the Bible, which comprised Verve 33/34.