CYRANO DE BERGERAC An Heroic Comedy in Fine Acts: In the English Version by Brian Hooker With a New Introduction by the Translator

LIMITED EDITION, one of only 1500 hand-numbered copies SIGNED by illustrator Sylvain Sauvage. Printed for the Limited Editions Club by Edmund B. Thompson at Hawthorne House in Windham, Connecticut. Illustrated with impressive and beautifully detailed full-page watercolours by Sylvain Sauvage, and the opening leaf of each act is decorated in red in a theatrical style. Folio, publisher's original red cloth decorated all over in black and gilt, in the original glassine wrapper and slipcase of glossy plum paper-coverded boards with printed label. xix, 199, [1] pp. A very fine copy, the book is essentially as mint, fresh and clean and perfect, the rarely-retained glassine has just a few chips and is still supple, the glossy slipcase with a little edge wear but still quite solid and strong.

Edizione: first of this fine illustrated edition, limited and signed by the illustrator, also as fine a copy as one could hope to find.<br> in this very famous and oft imitated comedic play cyrano de bergerac, a cadet and nobleman serving in the french army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. in addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet and is also shown to be a musician. however, he has an extremely large nose, which is the reason for his own self-doubt. this doubt prevents him from expressing his love for his distant cousin, the beautiful and intellectual heiress roxane, as he believes that his ugliness denies him the "dream of being loved by even an ugly woman."<br> french artist sylvain sauvage was the perfect choice to illustrate this volume for the limited editions club. at the time of this publication sauvage was serving as principal for the renowned l’école supérieure des arts et industries graphiques.