Virginie ANCELOT
Emprunts aux salons de Paris
Allardin|Paris 1835|13.50 x 21 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary half dark green sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with double fillets. Framing fillets on the glazed green paper boards. Traces of rubbing. Good copy, fresh.
First edition of this collection of 3 short stories (Francesca - La jeune femme - Le marquis de Lancry) composed by Virginie Ancelot but published under her husband's name. The thesis on which the three stories are based forms the preliminary pages: the illnesses that affect the body are the consequences of life's sorrows. A novelist and playwright, her salon at the hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt was one of the last great literary salons of Paris.
Contemporary half dark green sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with double fillets. Framing fillets on the glazed green paper boards. Traces of rubbing. Good copy, fresh.
First edition of this collection of 3 short stories (Francesca - La jeune femme - Le marquis de Lancry) composed by Virginie Ancelot but published under her husband's name. The thesis on which the three stories are based forms the preliminary pages: the illnesses that affect the body are the consequences of life's sorrows. A novelist and playwright, her salon at the hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt was one of the last great literary salons of Paris.
€300