Dubout - Kama Soutra - 1973

Beautiful numbered and illustrated copy with naughty and humorous color illustrations both in text and on plates, including a frontispiece by Dubout, of this bold bibliophilic achievement that links the classical Indian treatise devoted to the art of love and voluptuousness with Dubout's satirical and exuberant graphic universe.

The text, translated and adapted for a Western readership, preserves its dimension as an erotic and philosophical treatise, describing practices, postures and rules of love life, but it is transfigured by Dubout's humorous and caricatural illustration.

Its drawings, teeming, grotesque and full of vitality, subvert the seriousness of the text, giving it a burlesque and ironic tone, creating a contrast between ancient wisdom and modern verve.

Dubout - Kama Sutra - 1973 - Michèle Trinckvel Editions -
247 pages

Very good binding condition, the work in its beautiful black skyvertex publisher binding titled in gold on the first cover and on the back, under a reinforced illustrated cloth case (partially worn), slight signs of wear, gilded top, spine with raised bands adorned with a gold engraving -

Very good interior condition, red title, the work enriched with beautiful humorous color illustrations in-text and out-of-text including a frontispiece by Dubout, red illustrated endpapers, printed on Arjomari-Prioux vellum, this copy no. 2547/6000, fresh interior -

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