Theophile Gautier fils / Gustave Doré - Aventures du Baron de Münchhausen - 1850

A thrilling illustrated edition in its handsome cloth binding of one of the great classics of European burlesque and fantastical literature, based on the legendary tales of Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen, famous for his incredible stories, his impossible exploits, and his boundless fondness for bragging -

The baron’s character, presented as a travelling aristocrat, hunter, soldier and adventurer, tells with unflinching seriousness events that constantly defy the laws of nature, transforming travel writing and military memoirs into a succession of absurd, wondrous, and deliberately exaggerated scenes -

Each adventure rests on an essential principle: the more unbelievable the tale seems, the more the narrator presents it as perfectly ordinary truth, thereby creating a comic gap between the gravity of the tone and the impossibility of the events recounted -

Théophile Gautier fils / Gustave Doré - Adventures of the Baron of Münchhausen - 1850 - Furne, Jouvet et Cie -

230 Pages.

Good binding condition, the work in its full publisher’s red cloth binding, wear from use, some minor defects on the cover, a stain on the rear board, heads and corners slightly worn, speckled edges, smooth spine titled in gold lettering, black-pressed rules framing the boards with a superb gold motif at the center of the front board -

Good interior condition, foxing scattered, beautiful vignette on the title page, new translation by Théophile Gautier fils, the work enriched with numerous and beautiful engravings in black both within and outside the text including a frontispiece, all engraved by Gustave Doré, endpapers in decent condition, a pleasing copy -

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