Oscar Wilde / Louis Jou - Salomé. Drame en un acte. Précédé de notes par Ernest La Jeunesse. [1/50 avec double état des - 1917

Very beautiful edition published in the collection Le Théâtre d'Art by Georges Crès, adorned with a color frontispiece and illustrations drawn and engraved on wood by Louis Jou (including a plate outside the text).

One of the 50 off-market copies on Rives vellum, signed on the justification page and enriched with a series of the plates outside the text (one state in black for the frontispiece and two states for the outside-the-text plate, including one printed on Chinese paper).

Kept in a charming half-chocolate calfskin binding with corner tips, with cold lines along the covers and edges, a spine decorated with two mosaic flowers in ochre leather, with the title in gold lettering, gilded top. Covers and spine preserved.
In very good condition. Discreet scratch on the second cover, minor scuffs on the nerves and corners. Interior fresh and clean. Frontispiece plate slightly browned. No foxing. A fine copy.

Salomé is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde, with its original version from 1891 written in French. An English translation followed three years later. The one-act play is based on the biblical episode of Salomé, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch of Galilee, Herod Antipas. To the dismay of her stepfather, but to the great pleasure of her mother Herodias, Salomé requests that she be brought the head of Iokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for performing the dance of the seven veils.

Oscar Wilde / Louis Jou
Salomé. One-act drama. Preceded by notes on the author by Ernest La Jeunesse. Frontispiece and illustrations drawn and engraved on wood by Louis Jou. Collection Le Theatre d'Art, 1.
Georges Crès et Cie., Paris, 1917
in-8 (20 x 15 cm); 144 pages