Sylvie, Souvenirs du Valois; avec les lithographies de Roland Oudot
Paris: Émile Chamontin/ Flammarion, 1944. Roland Oudot. Large 8vo, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (241 x 190 mm); (18) + 132 + (14) pp. Illustrated with 17 lithographs by Roland Oudot, including half title, frontispiece and tail piece. Beautiful binding by René Kieffer binding (ticket on f.e.p. verso) in stamped brown paper to resemble wood, gilt heart decorations on front and back boards, gilt title; marbled endpapers, t.e.g. rest uncut; headbands and tailbands in gold and crimson silk. Binding tight, head of spine chipped and joints somewhat rubbed; pages clean with light toning on page edges.
Copy 658 of 1000 on thick cream paper ("pur chiffon à la forme des Papeteries de Lana), as printed on the limitation page.
Sylvie is a novella by French Romanticist Gérard de Nerval (1808 – 1855). The story is about a hero's love for three women, all of whom he loses – a hymn to unattainable, unrequited love. It contains many autobiographical elements, written in the form of a reminiscence. First published in the periodical La Revue des Deux Mondes in 1853, and as a book in Les Filles du feu in 1854, just a few months before Nerval killed himself in January 1855.
Condition: Near fine.
Item number: 1130
Price: $200.00
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