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Denis DIDEROT

La religieuse

Chez Buisson, Paris 1796, Un Vol. in 8 (12x20cm), (4) 412pp., relié.

First edition, rare, like all those of the author. Two editions were published on the same date by the same publisher, the second was actually printed in England as the true original was made from the manuscript owned by the Brothers Grimm, which he had already published a few letters in literary correspondence . (Tchemerzine II, 965.) Full calf porphyry. Smooth back to the grotesque. Part of title morocco mint. Golden caps on casters, dotted gilt cups. Yellow edges. Very slight traces of abrasion on the back, slightly dull without gravity, guards and contreplats paper bowl corners. Binding slightly later. Track fold pages 379-380 as a benchmark reading. Good copy, fresh, with few pale freckles. The origin of this famous novel is a rather cruel joke Salon of Madame d'Epinay, who had just acueillir the Marquis de Croismare therein. The latter ran a trial on a girl who had been placed in a convent against her will; Diderot was instructed to write false letters of this young girl to the Marquis, and make him believe his escape. The novel consists of letters, remained unfinished and Diderot had little desire, prudently to publish it. In 1780 he changed his manuscript, the corrected and, like many of his works, the circulated under the cloak from his peers and relationships. The work will be published after his death in 1796, its sulfur and anticlerical character becoming an editorial feature in this revolutionary period. Rare and beautiful specimen elegantly prepared.

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