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204 - Mérimée, Prosper & Vuillier, Gaston – *Colomba* – Autograph …
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Mérimée, Prosper & Vuillier, Gaston – *Colomba* – Autograph letter, signed and dated March 1851: ‘Sir & dear colleague, I had hoped to see you the other day at the bibliophiles’… ’. Illustrations by Gaston Vuillier, etched by Omer Bouchery. One of 100 copies (No. 179) on Japanese paper, featuring two versions of the engravings, one of which is a pre-letter version with annotations (total print run 1,200). Paris, Ferroud, Librairie des Amateurs, 1913. Large 8vo with the bookshop’s catalogue at the end of the volume. Binding signed ‘J. Van West’, in full red morocco, spine with gilt raised bands (slightly sun-faded), gilded panels, covers framed with triple gilded fillets, inner covers framed with a broad gilded scroll motif, edges of the covers with double gilded fillets, gilded head, original covers preserved. A very fine bibliophile’s copy. Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) was a writer, historian and archaeologist. In 1844, he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and, in the same year, to the Académie Française. ‘Carmen’, the famous opera by Georges Bizet, was inspired by Mérimée’s novel.
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Auction time 09/06/2026 at 8:00 PM
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