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LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.
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LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.
[Jocelyn]. MANUSCRIPT.
An exceptional collection centred on *Jocelyn*, a major work by the Romantic poet, comprising a first-year edition of the original, with a dedicatory inscription, and the complete manuscript of *Jocelyn*.
- *Jocelin* (the spelling differs in the title).
A remarkable manuscript of the entire text, with no corrections, lines drawn in pencil and subsequently erased, in fine handwriting in brown ink.
In-4 format. Bound in contemporary grey percaline, with embossed covers (wear to the binding; the inner joint is occasionally slightly loose or partially weakened; a few foxing spots).
Attributed to Lamartine’s own hand.
-Jocelyn. Episode. A diary found at a village priest’s house.
Paris, Furne, Ch. Gosselin, 1836.
2 volumes, in-8. Signed red morocco, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt lace on the endpapers, handmade paper endpapers, guilloché headbands, gilt edges (a few scattered foxing spots).
One of the first editions of this great novel-in-verse comprising 9,000 lines.
In an elegant Jansenist morocco leather binding signed Chambolle-Duru.
An autograph dedication to Monsieur [Villemun] by Lamartine on the half-title page, dated March 1836.
See original version (French)
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