Salomé

[chickenfeet]

I haven't done a book illustration post in a while. This time it's Salomé by Oscar Wilde, illustrated with pochoirs by André Derain. Limited Editions Club 1938.

This was a bit of a pig to photograph because it's bound in soft covers and doesn't want to lie flat.

salome_0, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

salome_2, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

salome_11, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

Set of twelve pictures on Flickr!

Comments

[frumiousb.livejournal.com]

very nice-- it seems like a beautiful book.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

It's an English edition - in French!H ow amazing!

Love the Derain drawings, too!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It was actually bilingual. There is a companion volume which is a facsimile of the first English edition with illustrations by Beardsley in hard covers. The pair packaged together in a slipcase.

[ironed_orchid]

Lovely.