Multi-colored handmade papers from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry frame 85 tipped-in color plates. With an embossed copper and cloth-bound cover and endpapers designed by Ettore Sottsass.

artist's book of 85 offset photo-lithographs; 84 plates slotted into pages of coloured handmade paper in discrete colour gatherings; plus 1 plate loosely inserted between colophon page and back of free end paper.Measurements36.5 × 27.0 cm (page) (approx.) 37.8 × 28.1 × 5.5 cm (overall) Editioned. 1000/1000 Inscription printed in red ink on label on box u.c.: FRANCESCO CLEMENTE / PASTELS 1980
printed in red ink on label l.c.: ANTHONY d'OFFAY / LONDON 1986
inscribed in faded ink on label on box u.r.c.: 1000
embossed on front cover u.c.: FRANCESCO CLEMENTE / PASTELS 1980
embossed on front cover l.c.: ANTHONY d'OFFAY / LONDON 1986
inscribed in pen and green ink u.c.: THE PONDICHERRY PASTELS
inscribed in pen and green ink u.l. - l.r.: These eighty-five pastels were drawn / in the Spring of 1980 in Pondicherry / a former French colony on the Eastern / Coast of India. They are reproduced / here in the original size. The book was / made at the Kalakshetre Press, under / the direction of C.T. Nachiappan. The / colour plates are tipped onto handmade / papers from the Sri Aurokindo Ashram / in Pondicherry. The endpapers and inside / pages were designed by Ettore Sottsass. / Published by Anthony d'Offay, 9 and 23 / Dering Street, London WI, in a limited / edition of one thousand copies, signed
inscribed in pen and green ink l.l.: by the artist. / This Copy 1000
inscribed in pencil l.l. - l.r.: Francesco Clemente

85 color plates, each loosely inserted into album leaves, as issued. Folio. Cloth over boards, with dec. copper sheets over each cover, embossed with Tantric diagrams. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, this is number 1000,signed in pencil in the colophon by the artist. Endpapers and inside pages designed by Ettore Sottsass. The paper of the album was handmade at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. The pastels, reproduced in the original size, were drawn by Clemente in Pondicherry in the spring of 1980.