Beschreibung
LAUTRÉAMONT, Comte de; OBRTEL, Vít: Maldororovy zpěvy. Poesie. [Maldoror. Poems]. Translated by Jan Vodehnal and Jindřich Hořejší. Cover design by Vít Obrtel. Frontispiece after a woodcut of the author’s portrait by Felix Vallotton. (= Prokletí Básníci [Course of Poets], 4). Prague: Škeřík (Průmyslová tiskárna) 1929. 8vo. 204, [8] p. Original publisher’s wrapper with flaps.
Elegant edition with Lautreamont’s (i.e. Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, 1846-1870) only works, ”Les Chants de Maldoror“ and „Poesies“, most influential for the surrealist movement, with a splendid cover design reduced to function by Vít Obrtel, elegantly contrasting Vallotton’s well-known expressive woodcut portrait of the author attached as frontispiece.
The fragile cover is professionally restored. otherwise very clean copy indeed of the normal edition on stronger machine mould paper titled »Antik«, after 50 copies on Holland Van Gelder (numbered I-L) and 200 on Simili Japan (1-200).
Obrtel: 1992, p. 53, no. 23 (bibliography).
