[Rarebooks] early (very) Flaubert manuscript

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Flaubert (Gustave)  LOYS XI.  Drame.  [Rouen?]: February-March, 
1838.  Autograph manuscript, signed twice. Apparently one of only 
four complete Flaubert manuscripts remaining in private hands.

         Folio, 162pp on 88 leaves numbered 1-86 [i.e. 87] plus two 
preliminary leaves; many corrections, deletions and emendations 
throughout, revealing the workings of the young writer's mind.  3/4 
brown levant, marbled boards, by Canape et Corriez, gilt lettering on 
spine. Some scratches on the rear cover, but nice, 
throughout.  Bookplate of Docteur Lucien-Graux.

         One of the earliest works of Flaubert's youth, written just 
two months after his sixteenth birthday.  "When I was ten years old," 
Flaubert reports, "I was already dreaming of glory, and I composed 
from the time I knew how to write" - Cahier intime, 
1840-1841.  "Louis XI is a play indisputably superior to the 
historical writings that Flaubert had written two years earlier in 
the style of Dumas.  Serious and extensive documentation furnished 
his ever fertile imagination with material, while with his passionate 
intelligence he acquired a sense of history" - Guy Sagnes - Notice, 
Flaubert /  OEUVRES DE JEUNESSE, La Pleiade, p. 1310.  "In 1831 he 
wrote his first historical piece, LOUIS XIII. From then on he 
dedicated himself to the genre until 1838 when he wrote LOUIS XI" - 
Claudine Gohot-Mersch.

         First published in 1910 by Louis Conrad in the OEUVRES DE 
JEUNESSE INEDITES; it is the text of Conrad that La Pleiade offers in 
its most recent edition. Conceived, written and polished over an 
intense period of fifteen days, it is palpable testimony to the 
burgeoning talent of one of Frances greatest writers. $175,000.00


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