Robert de Montesquiou: A Prince of the Nineties by Philippe Jullian 1st ed.

Secker & Warburg 
1967 
Hardcover 
1st British Edition 
288 Pages 
14.5 x 22cm 

Condition: Very Good 

The model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Huysmans' Jean des Esseintes and Proust's Baron de Charlus, Robert de Montesquiou was a decadent aesthete, Symbolist poet, painter and dandy - the ultimate 'it boy' of the fin-de-siècle.

Friends with everyone from Jean Cocteau to Gabriele D'Annunzio, de Montesquiou had the ambition to be the most photographed person in the world.

Philippe Jullian’s biography captures a life of stylised excess, minor poetry, and major influence. A key figure in the aesthetic and literary imagination of the 1890s.