![]() It is an extraordinarily advanced story and style for the period. The pencil drawings should have been engravings, but we just could not afford to pay for the additional work. The text was reproduced by offset, in a reduced size from the edition published by the Golden Cockerel Press, and the resulting bastard format has been found useful on a number of subsequent occasions, not least for the Shakespeare series. In Folio 21 Charles Ede writes that “The form of this book was dictated by the somewhat alarming financial situation existing at the time. The 1948 Folio Society prospectus states that “This is a great classic of the French Romantic period …….Members are warned, however, that this is not a story for puritans or children, in this unexpurgated form”. Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier 1948 ![]()
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