Edmond Rostand / Vincent Tailhardat - Cyrano de Bergerac - 1991

Charming numbered edition 409 on Lana royal pure rag vellum with watermark and illustrated with 74 original hors-texte watercolors by Vincent Tailhardat - The work freely draws on the historical figure of Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, a seventeenth-century writer and free thinker, but Rostand transforms this real character into a theatrical hero who has become iconic - The action takes place mainly in seventeenth-century France and blends history, comedy, adventure, poetry, and sentimental drama in a sequence of particularly spectacular scenes - Cyrano belongs to the Cadets of Gascony and is distinguished by his exceptional skill with the sword as well as his eloquence, his taste for panache, and his refusal of compromises - Edmond Rostand / Vincent Tailhardat - Cyrano de Bergerac + Suites - 1991 - Guy-Victor Labat - 296 Pages. Very good condition of the bindings, volumes in their full original brick leather, the first cover adorned with a polychrome composition, under publisher's case, suites under the same case, gilt top, back with raised bands adorned with gold fillets, gold titling - Very good interior condition, title page printed in red and black, work enriched with 74 original hors-texte watercolors by Vincent Tailhardat, limited to 2500 copies, one of 850 copies on Lana royal pure rag watermark vellum (no. 409), accompanied by two suites printed on vellum, two suites on pure rag vellum, clean text, endpapers in good condition, a fine copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days –

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