Roméo et Juliette

Original title:  Roméo et Juliette. Prétexte a mise en scène par Jean Cocteau, d'après le drame de William Shakespeare. Décors et costumes de Jean Hugo .

Specimen number 127 of 420 numbered copies.
First performed at the Cigale Theater, in Paris, on June 2, 1924.
Splendid and rare edition with hand-colored xylographs by  Jean Hugo , grandson of Victor Hugo. Based on William Shakespeare's play and adapted by Jean Cocteau. The plates reproducing full-page costumes are covered by velin paper.

In-4º, in French, pp. 100, cm 33.6 x 2 x 25.5, 1926. Printed on velin Montgolfier D'Annonay paper.

In an illustrated slipcase. Truly in very fine conditions.

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