Cyrano de Bergerac / Coutaud - Voyage dans la lune - 1971

Superb illustrated and numbered edition where the author imagines a fantastic journey to the lunar star, blending social satire, scientific speculation, and philosophical utopia, and transposes it into a luxury editorial object.

Coutaud's illustrations, a surrealist painter and engraver, visually translate the extravagance of the narrative through bustling compositions, where bodies and architectures metamorphose into hallucinatory visions, giving a graphic materiality to Cyrano's verbal daring.

It reflects a singular encounter between a 17th-century text, marked by the libertine spirit and scientific curiosity, and a modern aesthetic nourished by surrealism and symbolism, creating an artifact where literary history, graphic art, and luxury publishing come together to offer a renewed reading of a classic of the imagination.

Cyrano de Bergerac / Coutaud - Voyage dans la lune - 1971 - Philippe Lebaud
203 Pages

Very good condition of the binding, a book in blue morocco decorated with edition details, housed in a slipcase with edges, slight signs of use, spine with 4 cords, gold lettering, author's name, and illustrator's name.

Very good interior condition, title in blue, work enriched with numerous original etchings by Coutaud, marbled endpapers in good condition, limited to 300 copies, this one no. 186, in good condition.

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