Dans la nuit by E.T.A. Hoffmann

French edition of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Nachtstücke (1816/1817; English: Night Pieces), translated by Philippe Forget and beautifully illustrated by Tristan Bonnemain. The book design uses Rector for titles and Adobe Garamond for the running text. From the website of the publisher, Les éditions du Typhon:

To plunge into this illustrated book is to follow the devil who, in the evening, amuses himself by frightening the bourgeois; to grow fond of a young man petrified by his childhood terrors; to haunt the corridors of a castle with a tormented woman; to be seized by the visions of a sinister house; or to be drawn, like that sailor, into the depths of the earth. To immerse oneself in Hoffmann is to enter the night, lulled by images that are as humorous as they are terrifying, brought to life by the drawings of Tristan Bonnemain.