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Le Crépuscule des Dieux.
Le Crépuscule des Dieux. (With 26 original etchings by Richard Ranft).
Paris, Le Livre Contemporain, 1905. 27 x 20 cm. Richly decorated brown polished full morocco with slipcase. Gilt spine with five ribs. Covers with six gilt frames of straight lines alternating with dotted lines and ornate corners. Marbled endpapers with gilt line decorations on the edges and sides. Uncut, yet all edges gilt (Weckesser et ses fils). (4), 264 p. Printed in 119 numbered copies. In excellent condition.
This copy was printed for the illustrator and enriched with four original watercolors (including a rejected sketch for the cover), three letters of the writer to the embellisher Ranft and one from the professor of medicine S. Baudry, who was very enthusiastic about this book.
?Twilight of the Gods? (1884), yes, with a role for Richard Wagner, was Bourges?s most famous novel, a decadentistic monument of the late 19th century, said to have been based on the life of Charles II, Duke of Brunswick.
A book that is absolutely Right: an exquisite early bibliophile edition, printed in a low number and illustrated with splendid color etchings, gorgeously bound by one of the most prominent binders. Moreover, the copy of the illustrator, festively truffled with watercolors and author?s correspondence!
?Twilight of the Gods? (1884), yes, with a role for Richard Wagner, was Bourges?s most famous novel, a decadentistic monument of the late 19th century, said to have been based on the life of Charles II, Duke of Brunswick.
A book that is absolutely Right: an exquisite early bibliophile edition, printed in a low number and illustrated with splendid color etchings, gorgeously bound by one of the most prominent binders. Moreover, the copy of the illustrator, festively truffled with watercolors and author?s correspondence!
€ 1.450
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