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What are the "Fac-similÃ©s des premiÃ¨res Ã©ditions en couleurs"?

#1 · Posted: 2 Aug 2010 07:07

While looking at the backcover of the French edition, I found a series titled "Fac-similÃ©s des premiÃ¨res Ã©ditions en couleurs", chich contains 22 albums from Tintin au Congo to Tintin et les Picaros. I am a little confused zbout this, for in many albums there is only one coloured edition(they may be printed many times, but I think the content has no difference), so what is the meaning of "premiÃ¨res Ã©ditions en couleurs"? I wonder if they are collected from the original pieces from the magazine. In a word, is this edition the same with the most common one in content?

jock123
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#2 · Posted: 2 Aug 2010 09:33

ThompsonandThomson:

a series titled "Fac-similÃ©s des premiÃ¨res Ã©ditions en couleurs"

They are pretty much as the title suggests - reproductions of early editions, with period covers, printed on non-glossy paper, and with a cloth-bound spine, as opposed to perfect binding. Several of them are available in English. They have not been without controversy, as the series includes cloth bound versions of books which never had them before (e.g. Picaros).
If you do a forum search on facsimile, you will find several discussions relating to them.

ThompsonandThomson
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#3 · Posted: 2 Aug 2010 11:05

Thank you for your help, jock123!

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