Album primo-avrilesque

Album primo-avrilesque is a monograph by French writer, artist and humourist Alphonse Allais.[1][2] The slim volume of 26 octavo landscape pages, 18.5 by 12 centimetres (7.3 in × 4.7 in), bound with card, was published by Paul Ollendorff [fr] in Paris on 1 April 1897, and was sold for one franc.[3] The work is generally known by its French title, which may be translated into English as "April Fool-ish album".[4][5]

  1. ^ Catalogue entry for Album primo-avrilesque, Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ^ Allais, Alphonse (1897). Album primo-avrilesque (in French). Paris: P. Ollendorff.
  3. ^ See the frontispiece on page 1 of the album.
  4. ^ Potter, Caroline (2016). Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and His World. Boydell & Brewer. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-78327-083-5.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Danto was invoked but never defined (see the help page).