Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac / Coutaud - Voyage dans la lune - 1971

Superb numbered edition on laid paper, signed by the artist and with magnificent original etchings by Coutaud -

The author imagines a fantastical journey to the lunar star, blending social satire, scientific speculation and philosophical utopia, and transposes it into a luxury editorial object -

Coutaud's illustrations, a surrealist painter and engraver, visually translate the extravagance of the tale with lavish compositions, where bodies and architectures metamorphose into hallucinatory visions, giving graphical materiality to the verbal audacities of Cyrano -

It bears witness to a singular encounter between a seventeenth-century text, marked by libertine spirit and scientific curiosity, and a modern aesthetic nourished by surrealism and symbolism, creating an object where literary history, graphic art and luxury publishing come together to offer a renewed reading of a classic of the imagination -

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac / Coutaud - Voyage dans la lune - 1971 - Philippe Lebaud -
203 pages -

Very good condition of the binding, the work in its half morocco edition, blue cloth boards in good condition, under a slipcase and a chemise with worn edges, slight signs of handling, spine of the chemise detached, and the case slightly soiled, spine with 4 spine cords, gilt lettering, author name and illustrator -

Excellent interior condition, title in blue, the work enriched with numerous original etchings by Coutaud, marbled endpapers in good condition, print run of 300 copies, this is No. 225 on Lana vellum, copy signed by the artist, fresh -

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