Louis Lambert - Les proscrits - Séraphita

New edition, single volume from the complete works.
Reading binding in half green percaline, squared spine, glued paper title labels, skillful restorations to joints, corners slightly bumped, modest contemporary binding. Copy presented in tobacco calf chemise, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, date at foot, tobacco calf-backed slipcase, the ensemble signed by Goy & Vilaine.

Precious autograph inscription signed by Ewelina Hanska, "Madame de Balzac, Princesse Hanska," to Angelo de Sorr.
Angelo de Sorr, pseudonym of Ludovic Sclafer, is a Bordeaux writer and friend of Aurélien Scholl, Charles Monselet and the Goncourt brothers. He published in 1855 Les Pinadas which met with great acclaim. This first novel about the Bordeaux moors was praised, notably by Théophile Gautier who declared: "Its author, a disciple of Balzac, has revealed to us the superstitions and customs of these strange lands." Other critics subsequently noted the Balzacian influences in the novel. Thus Paul d'Amby in L'Artiste: "The author of Les Pinadas has been keenly concerned with Balzac's manner, and we approve his choice of guide."
When Madame Hanska offers him this story of a genius who died at his task, Angelo Sorr has just published Les Inutiles whose style is again compared, in the press, to his model: "One senses a preoccupation with Balzac's manner; the master's path is the right one; we would not turn anyone away from it and we esteem M. de Sorr's talent" (in La Correspondance littéraire, 1858).

Moving inscription from the famous epistolary lover and ephemeral wife of Balzac who thus cultivates the memory of her lover, who died barely a few months after their marriage. Their long-distance love story was summarized thus by Gonzague Saint Bris: "eighteen years of love, sixteen years of waiting, two years of happiness and six months of marriage." Eight years after the poet's death, this moving dedication from the legatee to the disciple testifies to the strength of a love that knew how to resist all separations.