Jules Laforgue / Geo A. Drains - Les Complaintes - 1923

Charming, numbered edition enriched with 128 superb lithographs by Geo A. Drains as well as a magnificent frontispiece to this posthumous and artistic reinterpretation of the poetic work of one of the great representatives of fin-de-siècle Symbolism!

The work revisits Laforgue’s original 1885 collection, in which Laforgue deploys an ironic and melancholic voice, oscillating between satire of daily life and metaphysical meditation, and transposes it into a luxury edition that testifies to the renewed interest in his oeuvre at the beginning of the 20th century -

Drains' illustrations, with a modern and expressive graphic style, dialogue with the texts by accentuating their tone, both burlesque and disenchanted -

This book embodies both the enduring presence of Symbolism and an openness toward a more contemporary aesthetic, offering readers an experience in which Laforgue's poetry is enriched by a singular visual interpretation -

Jules Laforgue / Geo A. Drains - The Complaints - 1923 - Simon Kra -
231 Pages

Very good condition of the binding, the volume in its original period marbled calf, showing signs of wear; the spine smooth yet superbly ornamented, with the title and author's name gilded, and gilt fillets and roulettes framing the boards.

Very good interior condition, work enriched with 128 lithographs by Geo A. Drains, superb color frontispiece, marbled endpapers in very good condition, ex-libris of Mr. Bartou -

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