Prosper Merimee
COLOMBA. Sixty-three original compositions by Daniel Virgin, engraved on wood by Christmas and Paillard, preface by Maurice Tourneux.
Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, L. Carteret and Co., Successors, 1904.
a large volume in-8 (27.5 x 19.5 cm) (4)-VIII-298-(1) pages and 4 pages for the prospectus related to the end. Inset illustrations and text.
full morocco binding chocolate back four fried nerves prolonged cold dishes, author, title and vintage gold back, netting cold cuts, shimmering yellow lining evening in a frame of morocco mosaic strips of red morocco with gold-rimmed small florets in the corners, first guard of watered silk yellow, the second guard marbled paper, illustrated cover printed in colors preserved in perfect condition (two dishes and back), gilded on controls (binding signed CONIL-Septiers ). Perfect whole.
ONE OF 100 COPIES OF HEAD ON PAPER JAPAN WITH THE RESULT OF HAND PRINTS ON WOOD NOT TEXT INTERCALATED (present only in the first 50 copies). Total circulation is limited to 300 copies (200 ex. Vellum Marais, without result).
Copies on Japan with a result (50 ex.) Were sold 300 gold francs in 1904. The 50 ex. no action on Japan were sold 225 gold francs, while the 200 ex. vellum Marais were sold 150 gold francs. Our copy while wearing the No. 93, contains the following wood reprint. The print is beautiful ancient Japan to form.
Colomba appeared for the first time in 1840. Consideration, with Carmen as the masterpiece of the author, this story written at the age of thirty-six years after Merimee by a two-month trip to Corsica made in the course of 1840 the year began, in a definitive manner, first among the favorites of the public and opened the doors of the French Academy. Colomba theme for the feud, private war of revenge between families who "did themselves justice , and through which the family whose member had been offended had to exercise revenge against the family of the offender. Colomba della Rebbia saw his father die murdered by his enemy, the lawyer Barricini . The assassin was able escape his crime in the eyes of justice, but Columba did not hope for revenge in the law.
"Colomba, since its inception in 1840, was reprinted again and again, but vulgar editions, and is the first time it appears in the window of booksellers, securely and as illustrated Book luxury. Both should we be grateful to Mr. Carteret have brought this Merimee's masterpiece in its collection, already considerable, and who has so many of Nodier, Balzac, Gautier and Musset. The friendly editor of the Rue Drouot has not been used to establish his book, all searches of modernity Ion strives to fashion today, he did simple and, by that very he did fine. An excellent text, excellently illustrated, printed on paper of choice with character stylish, very properly in pages that can one ask for more? And when the bargain, the book is introduced by a preface such as Mauritius Tourneux, we can say it meets every single desirable quality. " (Georges Vicaire, extract the Bulletin du Bibliophile for the year 1904, pp. 560-561)
Reference: Carteret Treasury Bibliophile : "Beautiful publication listed. One of the best illustrations of the artist. Virgin perfectly rendered scenery and costumes Corsican and the drama of the work of Merimee. "
Source: Copy of Library Tarek Wahby with his ex libris engraved (intaglio printing in sepia). This volume was sold by the bookstore James Cattan , suppliers of the court, Cairo (Egypt), with labels.
MAGNIFICENT COPY PERFECTLY PREPARED BY CONIL-Septiers IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL PICTURE BOOK.
Price: 2,000 euros
COLOMBA. Sixty-three original compositions by Daniel Virgin, engraved on wood by Christmas and Paillard, preface by Maurice Tourneux.
Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, L. Carteret and Co., Successors, 1904.
a large volume in-8 (27.5 x 19.5 cm) (4)-VIII-298-(1) pages and 4 pages for the prospectus related to the end. Inset illustrations and text.
full morocco binding chocolate back four fried nerves prolonged cold dishes, author, title and vintage gold back, netting cold cuts, shimmering yellow lining evening in a frame of morocco mosaic strips of red morocco with gold-rimmed small florets in the corners, first guard of watered silk yellow, the second guard marbled paper, illustrated cover printed in colors preserved in perfect condition (two dishes and back), gilded on controls (binding signed CONIL-Septiers ). Perfect whole.
ONE OF 100 COPIES OF HEAD ON PAPER JAPAN WITH THE RESULT OF HAND PRINTS ON WOOD NOT TEXT INTERCALATED (present only in the first 50 copies). Total circulation is limited to 300 copies (200 ex. Vellum Marais, without result).
Copies on Japan with a result (50 ex.) Were sold 300 gold francs in 1904. The 50 ex. no action on Japan were sold 225 gold francs, while the 200 ex. vellum Marais were sold 150 gold francs. Our copy while wearing the No. 93, contains the following wood reprint. The print is beautiful ancient Japan to form.
Colomba appeared for the first time in 1840. Consideration, with Carmen as the masterpiece of the author, this story written at the age of thirty-six years after Merimee by a two-month trip to Corsica made in the course of 1840 the year began, in a definitive manner, first among the favorites of the public and opened the doors of the French Academy. Colomba theme for the feud, private war of revenge between families who "did themselves justice , and through which the family whose member had been offended had to exercise revenge against the family of the offender. Colomba della Rebbia saw his father die murdered by his enemy, the lawyer Barricini . The assassin was able escape his crime in the eyes of justice, but Columba did not hope for revenge in the law.
"Colomba, since its inception in 1840, was reprinted again and again, but vulgar editions, and is the first time it appears in the window of booksellers, securely and as illustrated Book luxury. Both should we be grateful to Mr. Carteret have brought this Merimee's masterpiece in its collection, already considerable, and who has so many of Nodier, Balzac, Gautier and Musset. The friendly editor of the Rue Drouot has not been used to establish his book, all searches of modernity Ion strives to fashion today, he did simple and, by that very he did fine. An excellent text, excellently illustrated, printed on paper of choice with character stylish, very properly in pages that can one ask for more? And when the bargain, the book is introduced by a preface such as Mauritius Tourneux, we can say it meets every single desirable quality. " (Georges Vicaire, extract the Bulletin du Bibliophile for the year 1904, pp. 560-561)
Reference: Carteret Treasury Bibliophile : "Beautiful publication listed. One of the best illustrations of the artist. Virgin perfectly rendered scenery and costumes Corsican and the drama of the work of Merimee. "
Source: Copy of Library Tarek Wahby with his ex libris engraved (intaglio printing in sepia). This volume was sold by the bookstore James Cattan , suppliers of the court, Cairo (Egypt), with labels.
MAGNIFICENT COPY PERFECTLY PREPARED BY CONIL-Septiers IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL PICTURE BOOK.
Price: 2,000 euros
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