Madame Thérèse

Illustrated edition in first and only printing with 18 hors-texte and one etched header, with 2 title vignettes by Julian-Damazy colored in watercolor. Initial letters also heightened with watercolor. Limited to 400 copies. One of 300 on Holland paper numbered 186.
Contemporary full green morocco binding with mosaic work, signed Blanchetière at the bottom of the front pastedown, with slipcase covered in beautiful handmade paper in gold, green and white, and bordered with brown morocco. Spine with 4 raised bands decorated with 4 compartments in pink morocco mosaic with dotted fillets following the contours. A central iron mosaic in green. Author, title and date gilt at tail. Boards with mosaic work of a wide pink morocco frame with Phrygian caps in the corners, dotted and gilt fillets. Pastedown with pink morocco border and gilt fillets. Top edge gilt. Covers and spine preserved. Spine now uniformly brown. Superb paper, perfectly fresh. Uncut copy with full margins.
Very handsome copy.
One of the particularly fresh and successful tales by the famous ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN duo, set in 1792 in the Vosges. The novel tells the story of a sutler left for dead on the battlefield of Anstatt. This novel resurrects glorious times, the struggle of thirty thousand volunteers from Hoche's army against eighty thousand soldiers of Brunswick and Wurmser.