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PARIS, Paulin.
Lancelot du Lac.
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot, is a character in some versions of Arthurian legend where he is typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. In the French-inspired Arthurian chivalric romance tradition, Lancelot is an orphaned son of King Ban of the lost kingdom of Benoic, raised in a fairy realm by the Lady of the Lake. A hero of many battles, quests, and tournaments, and famed as a nearly unrivalled swordsman and jouster, Lancelot becomes the lord of the castle Joyous Gard and personal champion of Arthur's wife, Queen Guinevere, despite suffering from frequent and sometimes prolonged fits of madness. But when his adulterous affair with Guinevere is discovered, it causes a civil war that, once exploited by Mordred, brings an end to Arthur's kingdom.
- Published
- Robert Brie-ComteL, es Bibliolatres de France, 1958.
- References
- Benezit III, 719.
- Plates
- 37
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Robert Brie-ComteL, es Bibliolatres de France, 1958.
- Ref
- 1541
Quarto volume, contents loose within original pictorial wrappers. A UNIQUE COPY ENHANCED WITH 37 ORIGINAL GOUACHES BY EMILIEN DUFOUR (11 double-page). Example number 123, a subscriber copy - (of 1200) the original name has been hidden, and Dufour has offered this copy with original drawings to Mr. and Mrs. Georges Blareau. Philippe Lejeune illustrated the original edition, but all of them have been covered by these fine gouaches by Dufour. They represent scenes of nature, riding, feasts, and medieval days. Dufour expresses all his talent as a painter in these gouaches. This is the story of Lancelot and Guinevere's love for each other as Camelot, and the Round Table fall apart. Paulin Paris (1800-81) was a French historian of literature who specialised in the medieval period. In a newly made green cloth Solander box. *Ron Norman of Hartlepool carried out rebinding and restoration work on this book. (Ronnorm@aol.com)* Coloured plates in order: 1. Pictorial front cover. 2. Large illustration of Lancelot on a half-title page. 3. Title page / dedication. 4. Portrait of Lancelot. 5. Double-page illustration of leaving Bretagne. 6. Destruction of a castle. 7. Horses drinking in a river. 8. "She stands up with the child, joins her feet, and disappears under the waters." 9. Double page illustration of Lancelot and servant resting their horses. 10. "Every day, after the Mass, Queen Helen of Belote Went to pray on the mountain." 11. "Lionel and Bohordin at the party of Claudas." 12. Two children take the form of two greyhounds. 13. Male. 14. La Dame sits and contemplates in a church. 15. Stag. 16. Illustrations surrounding chapter XVI. 17. Lady in white riding a horse. 18. Knight stands over a slaughtered knight. 19. King Arthur and Guinevere. 20. Lancelot takes leave of the King and Queen. 21. A meeting in a forest. 22. "La Prison Douloureuse." 23. Female on horseback. 24. White Knight leaving the woods. 25. A Hermite reading his devotional book of hours. 26. People are looking out over a balcony. 27. A Knight drags a body behind his horse and comes across the White Knight. 28. "The painful guard becomes the joyful guard." 29. The Queen in prison. 30. A knight arrives at Camelot. 31. Two giants fight. 32. King and Queen in assembly. 33. "The lady takes the candles in her hand and sees the knight stretched naked in her chamber." 34. A battle scene. 35. First meeting (in private) between Lancelot and Queen Guinevere. The servant holds a horse. 36. "Now, beautiful sire, I know who you are. Your name is Lancelot du Lac." 37. End of book vignette of a sailing vessel.
