Alexis Piron - Œuvres galantes - Ode à Priape - 1940
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Alexis Piron is the author of Œuvres galantes - Ode à Priape, a numbered illustrated edition in demi‑leather binding, one in‑8 volume with 56 pages and 24 colour lithographs, published circa 1940 in French as a illustrated literature collectible (687 copies on Marais vellum).
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1 volume in-8, half morocco with corners, 56 unpaginated pages and 24 color lithographs - Beautiful copy.
Undated, circa 1940.
[Tirage à 687 exemplaires sur vélin du Marais]
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All the lithographs are in the tone of the most unbridled freedom. Monks busy themselves with the highest and the lowest tasks. Women ardently pursued by the vilest notables. The whole is drawn with a precision and humor of the sharpest bite. The very vivid coloring makes this suite and this book a very beautiful curiosa.
Some advance the name of André Collot as illustrator of this work.
Alexis Piron (1869-1773) was one of those "salted Burgundians." Both poet, chansonnier, and dramatist, he was a lawyer at the Parlement of Burgundy who never pleaded a case. It was around the age of 20 in 1710 that he composed the Ode to Priape. Priape, the Greek god, endowed with an enormous, ever-erect organ, serves as a pretext for these licentious poems. Piron was threatened with prosecution in his good city of Dijon, but Piron continued to write. Piron may be regarded as the master of the epigram and the Paragon of wit. Two centuries apart, one can say (at least I say it) that Piron and Verlaine are the two pillars of erotic poetry. Alexis Piron, like Verlaine, understood the power of the exact word, of verbal imagery that triggers or arouses fantasy.
1 volume in-8, half morocco with corners, 56 unpaginated pages and 24 color lithographs - Beautiful copy.
Undated, circa 1940.
[Tirage à 687 exemplaires sur vélin du Marais]
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All the lithographs are in the tone of the most unbridled freedom. Monks busy themselves with the highest and the lowest tasks. Women ardently pursued by the vilest notables. The whole is drawn with a precision and humor of the sharpest bite. The very vivid coloring makes this suite and this book a very beautiful curiosa.
Some advance the name of André Collot as illustrator of this work.
Alexis Piron (1869-1773) was one of those "salted Burgundians." Both poet, chansonnier, and dramatist, he was a lawyer at the Parlement of Burgundy who never pleaded a case. It was around the age of 20 in 1710 that he composed the Ode to Priape. Priape, the Greek god, endowed with an enormous, ever-erect organ, serves as a pretext for these licentious poems. Piron was threatened with prosecution in his good city of Dijon, but Piron continued to write. Piron may be regarded as the master of the epigram and the Paragon of wit. Two centuries apart, one can say (at least I say it) that Piron and Verlaine are the two pillars of erotic poetry. Alexis Piron, like Verlaine, understood the power of the exact word, of verbal imagery that triggers or arouses fantasy.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Illustrated, Literature
Book title
Œuvres galantes - Ode à Priape
Author/ Illustrator
Alexis Piron
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1940
Height
24 cm
Edition
Illustrated Edition, Numbered edition
Width
16 cm
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Binding/ Material
Half leather
Number of pages
56
