ALASTAIR, illustrator. Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de LACLOS; Ernest DOWSON, translator; ~ Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929.
2 vols, 4to (280 × 222 mm), pp. [6], 276, [6]; [4], 262, [4], plus 14 full-page colour-printed illustrations by Alastair. Original wrappers. Spines a little creased, but an excellent copy.
First edition with the extraordinary decadent illustrations by ‘Alastair’ (pseudonym of German-born artist Hand Venning Voight). It is one of the most attractive books of the Black Sun Press, founded and operated in Paris by the American expatriates Harry and Caresse Crosby. The translation from the French is Ernest Dowson’s (which had first appeared in 1898, commissioned by Leonard Smithers). This is one of 1000 copies on Moirans paper (after 15 Japon and 5 hors commerce copies). Minkoff A-31.
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