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CLAUDEL, PAUL. Le Chemin de la Croix. Copper plate and wood engravings throughout by Collot printed by Bracons-Duplessis; text illuminated in gold by Louis Charpentier reminiscent of the style of Schmied. Folio, specially bound by H. Puylaert for Olivier Herbosch with the sacred cross with droplets of blood and glowing gilt rays over shades of mauve and purple, spine evenly faded; original wrappers bound in; bookplate on front. Paris: Jacquemart, 1948
number 92 of 135 copies on arches from a total edition of 150. Le Chemin de la Croix, first published in 1911, was one of Claudel's most notable poetic works. It was written in a verse form entitled 'verset claudélien' of his own invention, possibly inspired by the Bible, halfway between verse and prose, with neither rhyme nor meter and limited by in-and-out-takes of breath--Talvart, III, pp. 148-149-150.
