Sainte beuve charles augustin note (2 Ergebnisse)

1874. (hardcover) Very good. xxxviii, 392pp. 12mo. Brown, polished quarter-leather over marbled boards; spine in six plain compartments, raised-bands; author compartment in red leather, lettered in gilt; title compartment in green leather, lettered in gilt. Period re-bind, with the distinctive marbled boards and trimmed, simple speckled edges. Leather on spine soiled; rubbed. Corners rubbed. Marbled EPs; the EPs were evidently once slightly stuck-together, with a few small corresponding surface transfers. Previous owner's stamp to title page. Else internally bright and clean. Frontispiece. Text in French. "Nouvelle Édition Complète précédée d'une notice sur le Sage par Sainte-Beuve" -title page (Bookseller's trans: "New Complete Edition preceded by a note on le Sage by Sainte-Beuve).…

Hardcover. Quarto. Pp. 470, (4). Plus 13 portraits including frontispiece, finely engraved on steel, each protected by a tissue-guard. HARDCOVER, bound by the binder Fock in contemporary quarter morocco and pebbled cloth over boards, spine gilt in compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, direct gilt lettering, sides blind-ruled, silken endpapers, all edges gilt, cloth ribbon marker. In fine condition. A very handsome copy. ~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1844. The engravings are by G. Staal, after the paintings of Gouttière, Outhwaite, Geoffroy, Girardet, Delannoy, Gervais, and others. B-6. ~ ~ NOTE: TOTAL REDUCTION SALE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator).…