Warja Honnegger-Lavater

The Swiss graphic designer Warja Honegger-Lavater (1913-2007) created a series of fairy tales told in symbols, which were lithographed into accordion-fold books. Her first, William Tell in 1962, caught the eye of Parisian publisher Adrien Maeght, who supported the production of her books for the next thirty years.

In 1982, their Imageries were reissued in a lithographed box, including Le petit Poucet, Blanche neige, Le petit chaperon rouge, La fable du hazard, La belle au bois dormant, and Cendrillon. Princeton’s copy is a variant, with the artist’s The melody of Turdidi substituted for Le Petit chaperon rouge.