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Clotilde de SURVILLE

Poésies

Nepveu, Paris 1824, In-8 (13x21cm), 312pp., relié.

Second illustrated edition of a Gothic mausoleum frontispiece, 5 elegant etchings out text in neo-Gothic frames according to the drawings of Colin, pupil of Girodet, 4 thumbnails in mind. Four sheetlets of H. Berton's scores for the setting of Verselets to my firstborn, Stances from the chastel of love and Triolets from the chastel of love.
Binding full frozen ice cream vintage bottle green. Back with false nerves adorned with 4 irons and nets on the nerves; casters in the tail. Large central medallion with friezes on the plates with ornaments of the monastic type, large frieze frieze frame and triple framing net. Double internal thread. Marbled slices. A trace of pale wetting on the frontispiece and an engraving. The paper in the middle of the book is relatively curled, bearing evidence of moisture, if not, superb copy in an elegant romantic binding.
Attributed to Clotilde de Surville, noblewoman of the fifteenth century, these naive and graceful poems dealing with love and war were first published in 1803 by Charles Vanderbourg, but their authenticity was quickly challenged because of certain anachronisms . In this second edition in response to critics, Vandeburg strives, in an important preface justificative, to defend the medieval origin of the manuscript. It appears today that the publisher was completely innocent of this trickery, whose true author would be the Marquis Joseph-Etienne de Surville (1755-1798). This royalist conspirator, shot during the Revolution, would have composed this troubadour pastiche in emigration, borrowing the name of his grandmother. This collection was very successful at the time and had a significant influence on romanticism.

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