Photogravure on papier gravure Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main, mounted on papier Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main moulé-pressé paper, as issued. Paper Size: 11.5 x 7.75 inches; Photogravure size: 4.625 x 4.625 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, A Season in Hell, 1986. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; folio design and editing by Benjamin Shiff, New York; printed by Wingate Studio, Winchester, under the direction of Jon Goodman, Winchester, with the assistance of Peter Pettengill, and Robert Townsend, Winchester, 1986. Excerpted from the folio, M examples of this edition have been printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress. The text has been set in fourteen point monotype Perpetua at Out of Sorts Letterfoundery. The design is by Benjamin Shiff. The photogravure plates were made by Jon Goodman. These plates were editioned at the studios of Jon Goodman, Peter Pettengill and Robert Townsend. The paper used for the text of the book is a mould-made letterpress sheet; The photogravures were printed on a handmade etching paper. Both papers have been made for this edition at Cartiere Enrico Magnani. This folio has been bound by and the slipcase made at the Jovonis Bookbindery. ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mapplethorpe's 1989 exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, sparked a debate in the United States concerning both use of public funds for "obscene" artwork and the Constitutional limits of free speech in the United States.