GAUTIER, Theophile. - Mademoiselle de Maupin.

"If you wish to read this book, shut yourself up carefully at home; do not let it lie about on the table. If your wife or your daughter were to open it, she would be lost. It is a dangerous book, and it counsels vice."

GAUTIER, Theophile.

Mademoiselle de Maupin. With the preface by the author, an introduction for the modern reader by Jacques Barzun and hand0colored illustrations by AndrÃ© Dugo. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1943.

One of 1,000 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 540.

Quarto. 356 pp. With nine inserted plates. Publisher's quarter maroon morocco over blue paper boards, gilt-lettered green cloth label to spine, front cover decoration stamped in red and gilt. Touch of sunning to spine, but still a fine copy. With original slipcase. Slipcase is soiled and slightly rubbed, with damp staining to one side and one area of splitting at bottom edge, but still solid.

One of the great early works of Romanticism, with a famous preface containing the author's views on art for art's sake. In a conscious imitation of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Gautier tells the story of the seventeenth-century bisexual Madeleine de Maupin, who masqueraded as swash-buckling cavalier.

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Newman & Wiche, 154.

ID: 3696

$ 75

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