SALVADOR DALI ILLUSTRATED Horace Walpole Le Chateau D ' Otrante 1964 FRENCH LTD. ED
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HORACE WALPOLELE CHATEAU D’OTRANTEILLUSTRATED BY SALVADORDALITHE FRENCH BOOK CLUBCOLLECTOR’S EDITION 1964This is a limitededition Le Chateau d’Otrante published and released by The French book Club in 1964.This is number 4221/7000 hors commerce, the printed tirage page is in the backof the book.This is a beautifullymade hard covered canvas book, in burgundy with the cover label embossed in goldwriting “Horace Walpole Le Chateau d’Otrante” and in black and white a big D...ALIon the columns of a castle wall. Thisbook contains 12 black and white vignette engraving illustrations by Salvador Dali.The text is in French, translation by Francis Ledoux. It is a very nicepresentation of this formidable Gothic novel illustrated by the No less"Gothic" Dali! A Rare collector’s book in very good condition. Storedfor many years this example has very little shelfwear for its age, and the binding is tight and crisp. The book has 114 numberedpages and measures approx. 14 x 21 cm. This book and edition information islisted in the Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali by AlbertField, 64-5 page 26.~About the novel~The castle of Otranto, Gothic history (original title: The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic story), is anovel by Horace Walpole, published in 1764 and whose action takes place inOtranto, in Salento, in the south of Italy. Otranto Castle can be considered asthe first Gothic novel, a genre that would become extremely popular in Europein the late eighteenth century and until the first decades of the next century.Walpole presented the original edition of Otranto Castle as the translation ofa manuscript printed in Naples in 1529 newly rediscovered in the library"of an Old Catholic family of northern England".Please see pictures for condition and quality.
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