The Lulu Plays with artwork by William Kentridge

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015.

[Castiglioni, Luigi, binder.] Wedekind, Frank (1864-1918). The Lulu plays . . . with sixty-seven drawings by William Kentridge. 169, [3]pp. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015. 341 x 260 mm. No. 353 of 400 copies signed by the artist. Custom binding by Luigi Castiglioni consisting of undyed and dyed pigskin, red suede endpapers, four cutouts in the front cover embellished with metal ornaments, half pigskin chemise with title in red leather onlay, custom slipcase; binder's name tooled in gilt on the inside front cover. Prospectus included. Fine.

Printed on Hanemühle Biblio paper in Perpetua and Gill Sans types. William Kentridge is an internationally known South African artist, printmaker and filmmaker working in the satiric tradition of Daumier, Goya and Hogarth. Kentridge's drawings illustrating the Arion Press edition of the Lulu plays were used in the New York Metropolitan Opera's 2015 production of Lulu.

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