[Rarebooks] fa: PROSPER MERIMEE - LA JAQUERIE 1828 - First Ed./Farez Binding

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, January 31. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain

[Prosper Merimee:] La Jaquerie, Scenes Feodales, suivies de La Famille de Carvajal, Drame. Par l'auteur du Theatre de Clara Gazul. Paris: Brissot-Thivars (Imprimerie de H. Balzac), 1828. FIRST EDITION; 8vo (22.5 cm), untrimmed, bound in later half straight-grained brown morocco by Alfred Farez, spine with gilt-tooled decorations and lettering, marbled endpapers; [8], 422, [2] pp.; with the half-title. Original publisher's printed wraps (front and rear covers and spine) bound in. Carteret II, p. 137; Vicaire V, 705.

First edition of Merimee's dramatic retelling of a fourteenth-century peasant uprising. One of the most significant, as well as one of the last, literary works to come off the presses of Honore de Balzac's short-lived printing firm. Binding with a few small areas of rubbing/scuffing to the extremities and front joint, some wear with loss to the spine head; soiling to the original wraps, some toning and light dust-soiling to the untrimmed edges of the text block, otherwise the contents are unusually clean and fresh, firmly bound. Front paste-down with the bookplate of Ross Ambler Curran, early twentieth-century West Coast society figure and bibliophile.