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Les Chants de Maldoror

1948188 x 253 mm

FIRST EDITION OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY RENÉ MAGRITTE

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FIRST EDITION OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY RENÉ MAGRITTEwho produced 12 full-page compositions as well as the headbands, lettering and vignettes. A facsimile was published by Apollo in 1984.
Limited edition of 4208 copies on pure rag paper.
Brought out of oblivion by the surrealists, The Songs of Malador was also illustrated by Salvador Dalí in 1934.

Brussels,La Boétie,1948.In-4, Softcover188 x 253 mm,190 pp. - 1] bl. f. - 3] ff.

Small tear at foot of first cover, light wetness at head of spine.

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Isidore Ducasse

(Montevideo: 4 April 1846 - Paris: 24 November 1870)

 

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René Magritte

(Lessines in Hainaut: 21 November 1898 - Brussels: 15 August 1967)

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