Aloysius Bertrand (1807-1841)

KAŠPAR NOCI

1947
Format 12°, 191 pp., numbered. Loose printed gatherings in a paper wrapper. Title page printed in black and blue. A collection of poems regarded as a classic of French poetry. Translated from the French by Josef Heyduk. The work contains 8 signed etchings by Václav Zykmund. "Aloysius Bertrand Kašpar noci Brno MCMXLVII Edice Atlantis". Published in 1947 by Jan V. Pojer in Brno. Edition of 1,500 copies, of which 400 numbered; this copy numbered 24. Paper wrapper slightly creased at the spine. Provenance: Galerie Moderna.