Rimbaud, Arthur. English by George Frederic Lees, Lithographs by Louis Favre. - A Season in Hell. Done into English by George Frederic Lees. Lithographs by Louis Favre. [Une Saison en Enfer]. (Fortune Press, London; Mouton & Co., The Hague, 1949). [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, PRINTED ON VAN GELDER].

The Hague, Mouton, 1949. Soft cover. Royal quarto. Folded sheets of handmade Van Gelder paper 325x500 mm. Pp. 73. With 11 colour lithograph plates, including frontispiece. With one line-drawn illustration as half-title. Title-page printed in green and black, titles printed in various colours. Includes a separate section, Translations of the poems. Contents leaves, Colophon leaves, 4 blank unnumbered prelims and 3 such finals. In English and French. Loose as issued in original paper portfolio, printed in green, with the hand-drawn illustration repeated in black. Wrappers soiled, worn at ends, stained inside with what seems to be old liquid adhesive. Contents is very good, spotted here and there. Withal, a good copy, bright plates. ~ First and only edition of this extremely rare Signed, Limited Edition. Printed on Van Gelder mould made paper in an edition of 145 copies only, this is copy number 106. Signed and numbered by Louis Favre. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891); Louis Favre (1892-1956). Translated into English from the original French by George Frederic Lees. X-5 .

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