vigny count alfred 1797 1863 hazlitt (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1847, 1st English ed, VG+. In green embossed cloth, corners and edges very lightly bumped and worn. Spine, titles in gilt, edges bumped. Internally, yellow (later?) endpapers, half title with adverts to verso, portrait frontis, [5], (vi-xvii), [1], [1], 2-397 pp, 1 pl (portrait), printed by TC Savill, part of the European Library series, small bookseller label to epd (Leighton), some light spotting to frontis, but an exceptionally clean copy. The classic French novel first published in Vienne in 1827. Our copy is the first English translation based on the 9th Paris edition. (Lowndes 23). The story of the failed conspiracy of young Henri d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars to overthrow Richelieu; his doomed romance with Marie de Gonzague, a princess betrothed to the king of Poland; and Cinq-Mars' subsequent beheading. Alfred Victor de Vigny, was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.