Emily Brontë / Léon Masson - Wuthering Heights - 1948

Wuthering Heights [Les Hauts de Hurlevent]. Unpublished translation by Louise Servicen. Original lithographs by Léon Masson.‎ Paris, Jean Porson, 1947.

2 volumes in quarto of 240 pp + 248 pp, loose sheets under illustrated wrappers with gilt edges, themselves in illustrated tie-bound slipcases and illustrated publisher’s cardboard cases.
+ 1 volume in quarto of 23 lithographed plates: a sequence of 23 portraits and landscapes

Format: 34.7 x 27 x 12.7 cm

Original black lithographs by Léon Masson

Limited edition, a copy on Rives vellum prepared to commemorate the centenary of Emily Brontë’s masterpiece in 1948.

The illustrated cases are worn. The first is chipped at the top right and the spine of Volume 1 is creased. Some foxing.