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La comédie de la mort, édition originale

La comédie de la mort
Réf. 39272
 900.00

GAUTIER (Théophile)

Paris  -  Desessart  -  1838

  • Bookbinder : FERRAND-GINHOUX
  • Format : In-8
  • Number of volumes : 1 volume.
  • Binding : Bound.
  • Collation : 375 pp.
  • Language : Français

Binding red half-chagrin. Spine with nerves adorned with small golden florets. Spotted slices. Binding signed FERRAND-GINHOUX. Washed copy with a restoration at the corner of a sheet, without missing text.

ORIGINAL EDITION  decorated with a frontispiece engraved on wood from young Lacoste .

A collection of poems on physical death, inner death, absence, the flight of time, loneliness and misfortune, La Comédie de la mort brings together Gautier's darkest thoughts, long fascinated like Goethe, Baudelaire, and later Rimbaud and Rilke, by La Danse Macabre rediscovered through Holbein's engravings. It was also Gautier's last "romantic" work.

In good condition.

Categories : First edition, Poetry
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