Victor Hugo / Raymond Carrance - Ruy Blas - 1963

Superb illustrated and numbered edition of this work that recounts Victor Hugo's romantic drama. The collection unfolds the tragic story of Ruy Blas, a valet in love with the Queen of Spain, manipulated by the cynical Don Salluste, whose fate embodies the grandeur and misery of the humble faced with the powerful.

The text, marked by Hugo's eloquence and dramatic tension, combines social critique, exaltation of love, and meditation on justice, placing the play within the canon of romantic theater.

Raymond Carrance's illustrations, as a painter and engraver, bring a modern visual dimension to Hugo's drama: his compositions, often stylized and expressive, convey the passion, violence, and nobility of the characters, offering a graphic interpretation that dialogues with the power of the text.

Victor Hugo / Raymond Carrance - Ruy Blas - 1963 - Le Parnasse
235 pages -

Very good condition of the binding, leaf book in its publisher's slipcase, with a gray box and black and red velvet volutes, slight signs of use, smooth titled spine.

Very good interior condition, a work containing 30 original burins by Raymond Carrance, illuminated with stencils by Edmond Vairel in Monaco (9 plates + 15 double plates hors-texte on laid Japanese paper), numbered 49 on Vélin d'Arches paper, new.

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