Author: [Daragnès, Jean-Gabriel]
Title: Les Pièces Condemnées de Charles Baudelaire, Ornées de Douze Bois de Daragnès
Description: Paris, Chez Leharanger-Coq, 1917. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Daragnès. 1st Edition. Soft cover. by Artist. [Daragnès, Jean-Gabriel] LES PIÈCES CONDEMNÉES DE CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, ORNÉES DE DOUZE BOIS DE DARAGNÈS signed printed November 15, 1917 at the Studium printing house This is no. XVI from the limited double suite edition of 50 printed on Chine paper signed by Daragnes: [12 copies on Old Japan (I to XII); 30 copies on China (XIII to XLII); 50 copies on Imperial Japan (numbered 1 to 50) and 300 copies on Vélin de Hollande, numbered from 51 to 350.] Format: 9 7/8" x 7 7/8" Both Soft Cover Suites are printed in red and black housed in the original glassine. The first book includes the poetry with illustrations in uncut pages: Table des Matières: Lesbos. Femmes damnées. Le Léthé. À celle qui est trop gaie. Les Bijoux. Les Metamorphoses du Vampire. Second wrap includes a series of beautiful loose printed woodcut images printed in black and sanguine Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950) was a painter, a publisher and an illustrator of books, and in particular of works that are now commonly referred to as modern illustrated books. A wonderful example of the talent of Jean-Gabriel Daragnès and his visions of the Charles Baudelaire poetry. "Charles Baudelaire's poems known as Pièces condamnées (The Banned Poems), which were omitted at the demand of the French government censors. The 'forbidden' poems ('Lesbos', 'Femmes damnées (à la pâle clarté)', 'Le Léthé', 'À celle qui est trop gaie', 'Les bijoux', and 'Les métamorphoses du vampire') appeared in print in 1866, but were officially banned in France until the 1940s because of their lesbian and sado-erotic content. This made them particularly attractive to publishers of limited illustrated editions."*https://honesterotica.com/portfolios/1146. Ill.: Daragnès.

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