Manon Lescaut Illustrated By Alastair - Limited Edition 1928
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Manon Lescaut Translated from the French of the Abbe Prevost by D.C. Moylan with Eleven Illustrations by Alastair and an introduction by Arthur Symons Published by John Lane The Bodley Head,1928 No. 179 of a limited edition run 1,850 copies for sale in England and America. Fair condition - the boards are very discoloured but internally the pages are very good (except some foxing to both front and rear endpapers). The plates themselves are in very good condition too with protective tissue pages. Alastair - short biography: "He is best known as an illustrator, under the pen name "Alastair". His career as an artist was launched in 1914, when John Lane published Forty-Three Drawings by Alastair. His drawings, which are often decadent in spirit and have the look of Art Nouveau, are influenced somewhat by the drawings of the English artist Aubrey Beardsley, who illustrated works by Oscar Wilde, as Alastair would later do. His 'serpentine line' often depicts characters whose outlines are lightly drawn with the main areas filled in with 'broken dotted lines'. His drawings were in black and white ink, sometimes with one colour added. Alastair's illustrations show a strong influence from the Decadent movement in art and poetry that had begun decades earlier, with the "perverse and sinister" a recurring theme. Intricate decorative elements and fine detail are apparent in his works. Alastair's fame spread in 1920 with the publication of Wilde's The Sphinx, which contained ten full-page illustrations by him, 'printed in black and turquoise'. Many of his drawings were inspired by the poems of Wilde, and in 1922 Alastair would illustrate a book of Wilde's play Salome."
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