William Shakespeare & F. Victor Hugo / Jean Gradassi - Comme il vous plaira / Mesure pour Mesure / Peines d'Amour perdues & Richard II - 1974

Charming numbered and illustrated volume of this work which brings together a selection of major texts by William Shakespeare in an edition associated with François-Victor Hugo’s French translation or adaptation and enriched with compositions by Jean Gradassi, thus offering a meeting between Elizabethan theatre, French literature, and the art of modern illumination—the edition reveals the different facets of Shakespeare's dramatic genius through works where tragedy, comedy, history, passionate love, political ambition, jealousy, vengeance, madness, family rivalries, and questions about the human condition intersect—the great figures created by Shakespeare appear here as complex characters, subjected to inner conflicts and to circumstances that test their convictions, their feelings, and their relation to power—William Shakespeare & F. Victor Hugo / Jean Gradassi - The Masterpieces of Shakespeare - 1974 - Volumes IX and X - At the Sign of the Song of the Spheres - 203 - 191 pages. Excellent condition of bindings, volumes in full havana leather, in cases, boards entirely covered with a cold floral decoration on the front, accentuated with gold fillets and fleurs-de-lis, a reminder of the decor on the back with five raised bands richly decorated with gilded fleurs-de-lis, gilded titles, upper edges gilded—Excellent interior condition, title in black and blue, beautiful engraving on the title page, nice frames in the form of illustrations, text in a lovely decorative surround, work enriched with beautiful colored illustrations by miniaturist Jean Gradassi, with the translation by F. Victor Hugo, a fine numbered copy, marbled endpapers in very good condition, clean text, fresh interior—Delivery service available within a few days—