Alfred de Musset / Raphaël Drouart - Les Nuits - 1926

Alfred de Musset / Raphaël Drouart - The Nights - At Éditions de l'Estampe - 1926

This is an illustrated first edition, printed in only 175 copies. This copy bears the number 24 and is printed on Madagascar paper.

Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) is a French poet, playwright, and novelist—a emblematic figure of the Romantic period. A member of the Académie française, he quickly established himself within literary circles by his poetic freedom and lyrical passion. This major poetic collection was written in the wake of his painful and tumultuous break with George Sand in Italy, reflecting the transition from passionate suffering to poetic creation.

Raphaël Drouart (1884-1966) was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator renowned for his bibliophile illustration work in the early 20th century. A member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, he specialized in wood engraving techniques and fine lithography. His elegant, melancholic style perfectly suits the Romantic and dramatic sensibilities of Musset's poems.

This book gathers the four famous Musset poems (La Nuit de mai, La Nuit d'août, La Nuit d'octobre, and La Nuit de décembre), which stage a poignant dialogue between the Poet and his Muse about love’s pain and artistic inspiration.

Publisher's binding preserved under a dust jacket with normal wear or rubbing at the ends of the spine.

The volume comprises 55 pages.