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[DORÉ]. ARIOSTE (L'). Roland furieux. Heroic poem translated - Lot 83
[DORÉ]. ARIOSTE (L'). Roland furieux. Heroic poem translated by A.-J. du PAYS. Paris, Hachette, 1879.
In-folio, publisher's red percaline, title and large personalized gilded decoration on front cover (A. Souze).
First edition.
618 woodcuts by Gustave DORÉ, including a frontispiece and 81 full-page illustrations.
"In translating this difficult-to-interpret work into pencil, Doré demonstrated an extraordinarily fertile and flexible imagination" (Leblanc, 32-33).
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