Les Quatre fous, oeuvre tragique. Script project for a Commedia dell'arte [together with] two schoolbooks from courses taken at the École du Louvre.

£6,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

An unrecorded playscript together with two schoolbooks from the École du Louvre, dated 1930-31, in the hand of the great actor and mime artist Jean-Louis Barrault. Holograph manuscript, 22 leaves of unlined paper, in black ink; 12mo (15 x 10.2 cm); light toning, short closed tear to one leaf; 6 leaves of unlined paper, in pencil; 4to (27 x 21 cm); horizontal centrefold, light toning and soiling, slight edgewear; schoolbooks: 2 vols, 8vo; in black ink and pencil, original drawings, some loose leaves inserted, slight toning; black and maroon cloth-backed boards, paper label to upper covers, some wear to spine ends, binding loose but holding, extremities rubbed.

• Binding: Hardcover

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