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Bacchus’s preparatory dossier

At the heart of the creative process

Cocteau’s most ambitious play

Autograph manuscript signed for Bacchus ; [Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, c. 1951], 167 p. in-folio and in-4°. Written predominantly in blue and red ink, with a few leaves in graphite. Numerous erasures, obliterations, corrections, additions, and overwritings, all in Cocteau’s hand.

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