Alphonse Daudet / Daniel Fort, dit Fordan - Lettres de mon moulin - 1986

Charming numbered edition 136 on Lana royal vellum and illustrated with beautiful color compositions by Daniel Fort, aka Fordan - The collection presents itself as a series of letters and tales supposedly written from an old Provençal mill, an imaginary place that becomes the narrator's privileged vantage point on a region both real and rebuilt through literary memory - From the opening pages, Daudet contrasts the luminous tranquility of Provence with the noises and constraints of Parisian life, making the mill a symbol of a return to the sources, of freedom and of communion with a nature still preserved - The reader is thus invited to explore a Provence populated by shepherds, peasants, hunters, merchants, religious figures, landowners, picturesque characters and animals, each contributing to compose a true human gallery - Alphonse Daudet / Daniel Fort, aka Fordan - Lettres de mon moulin + Suites - 1986 - Nouvelle Librairie de France - 288 Pages. Very good condition of the bindings, volumes in full brick leather, the front board adorned with a polychrome composition, suites in a matching case, gilded top, spine with raised bands ornamented with gilded lines, gilded titling - Very good interior condition, the work enriched with beautiful color compositions by Daniel Fort aka Fordan, edition of 2554 copies, one of 250 copies on Lana royal vellum bound in full leather (No. 136) accompanied by three suites of paintings and a suite of drawings on pure chiffon Lana royal vellum, without the original signed serigraphy, text clean, fresh interior, endpapers in good condition, a handsome copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days –

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