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Le Roi S'amuse, 1966

 Item — Box: 1

Illustrations

Cover; title page; dedication; pp. 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13–15, 17, 19–20, 23, 25

Dates

  • Creation: 1966

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Extent

1 volumes (18 cm. [28] pages, illustrated. )

Language of Materials

English

Related Material

12 ink drawings (6 x 15 cm. to 9 x 16 cm.); some reproduced in book. 1 note, handwritten by author/illustrator. Material held in Virgil Burnett collection at the National Gallery of Canada.

Description

First book published by Burnett's own Pasdeloup Press. Includes cover illustrations, 13 smaller drawings with the text. Black-and-white fine drawings that depict the degenerate fantasies of the forgotten king. This story later became "King Folly" an episode in Burnett's Towers at the Edge of a World (1983).

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