Tragédie de Shakspeare. Roméo et Juliette. Traduction de Daffry de la Monnoye, illustrations d’Andriolli gravures de Huyot

The famous 19th-century Lithuanian painter and printmaker Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836–1893) emigrated after the uprising of 1863. He arrived in Paris in 1883 and found a job with the famous Firmin-Didot publishers, for whom he illustrated a large number of classic works, including the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by the English playwright William Shakespeare. Andriolli became famous for his illustrations, and was compared to the renowned illustrator and painter Gustave Doré (1832–1883).

This copy of the book is quite extraordinary: it is printed on Japanese paper, marked as No 1, and was the personal copy of the French engineer Jean Roland Gosselin (1868–1936). Each of its ten illustrations is printed in two versions on different paper and covered with tracing paper, on which a commentary on the illustration is printed. The last illustration (Act 5, Scene 3) is signed ‘Andriolli z Vilna’.

Text authors Rolandas Gustaitis and Algimantas Muzikevičius.

The famous 19th-century Lithuanian painter and printmaker Michał