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1898BB0526Boston New York London: Lamson Wolffe and Company 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First English Edition inscribed in an elegant hand by the translator on front fly-leaf: “Compliments of / Howard Thayer Kingsbury / November 1898.†Small 8vo: 2411pp. Publisher's original red cloth lettered and decorated in silver to spine and upper board with frontispiece portrait tissue guard still present of the actor Richard Mansfield in costume. A Near Fine or better spine slightly faded though silver remains bright and darkened page edges. Very scarce particularly in this condition. Cyrano de Bergerac was first published in France by Charpentier et Fasquelle in 1898 following its stage production at the Porte Saint-Martin Theater in Paris on December 28 1897 and first translated into English by Kingsbury for Lamson Wolffe the same year. Mansfield was the first actor to play Cyrano in the United States in an English translation. The play is based loosely on the life of Savien de Cyrano de Bergerac 1619-1655 Rostand’s favorite writer. "Yet the character as portrayed by Rostand – with his excessively-enlarged nose his almost super-human duelling skills and his ability to improvise eloquent poetic speeches – is far from an exact portrait of the real-life Cyrano of the seventeenth century. . . . Possessed of a keen intellect with an insatiable appetite for reading and for learning he constantly experiments with when he is not challenging outright the established social scientific political and religious ideas of his day. This questioning satirising and ridiculing of contemporary authorities along with an open-mindedness to new concepts that remains strikingly modern has earned Cyrano a firm place amongst the libertin writers of seventeenth-century France." Literary Encyclopedia N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Lamson, Wolffe and Company hardcover
20117283Belluno Venezia: Edizioni Colophon 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Printed on paper by Fabio Reolon 400g Aetna Sicars. Estroflessioni three-dimensional paper art signed and numbered by the artist.<br /> Proposte d'arte Colophon Colophonarte has emerged as a major force publishing new artist's books-in lavish limited editions-illustrated by noted European artists. The goal being to bring create living testimony to contemporary artististic-literary culture. The editor/publisher Egidio Fiorin-animated by an equal passion for literature and visual art-explained his intentions thus: ". the book has been and is still now one of the fundamental pillars of advanced societies. But the book can be something more: it can be a work of art . an object which in its paper the composition of its text its printing the involvement of literary figures artists and artisans of quality represents an exaltation of human activity of human capacity for reflection sublimation and synthesis". Minor shelf/edge wear slight color rubbing at top edge eles tight bright and unmarred. Beige cloth boards cream paper onlay black ink lettering tipped in estroflessioni with foamcore matting for protection. fo. np 6pp. Numbered limited edition this being 12 of 50. Edizioni Colophon hardcover
192875930Paris: Eugène Fasquelle 1928. Fine. Eugène Fasquelle Paris 1928 14.50 x 20.50 cm relié New edition limited to 3000 copies on wove paper. No.953. Rare art-deco Jotau binding in full vermillion red bakelite joints mounted on piano-type hinges beveled boards at edges front board struck with three horizontal recessed fillets and decorated with a frieze of chiseled wheels this same frieze is set with a silver metal plate bearing the engraved title of the work small plate of the same on the spine. Original wrappers preserved. Small lacks of bakelite on the first three pivots at foot otherwise superb copy with perfect freshness of paper. Binding bearing the signature on the second pastedown in a medallion: Jotau for Joseph Taupin with the mention inside the second board: ""patented S.G.D.G."". This binding was made between 1920 and 1933. Soft cardboard slipcase. Eugène Fasquelle hardcover
1958135550Paris France: Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut 1958. French paper binding with signatures loosely inserted chemise slipcase. Trémois Pierre-Yves. folio. French paper binding with signatures loosely inserted chemise slipcase. True first edition limited to 175 copies of which this is one of 125 numbered copies on Rives vellum paper available for sale. Signed by the author and artist Pierre-Yves Trémois. Twenty-two engravings mixing various techniques including etching aquatint and sugar feather of which 15 are double-page spreads. Title on spine of chemise and front cover of the paper binding. chemise has a crack on the front hinge but still holding. Slipcase has a four inch crack along the top hinge. The edges of the paper have very mild toning. A lovely production. Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut unknown
196757702Gemeentedrukkerij Rotterdam. As New. 1967. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE & UNMARKED CRISP TIGHT TO THE SPINE - - Text in Dutch and French. 165 works catalogued; many illustrated in color or black and white -- with a bonus offer-- . Gemeentedrukkerij Rotterdam paperback
1898834836Paris France: Librairie Charpentier Et Fasquelle Eugène Fasquelle Éditeur. As New. 1898. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text block pristine pages tight to spine - Text in French. 226 pages. Fine binding part leather with decorated coverboards and endpapers; top edge gilt. First edition. -- with a bonus offer-- . Librairie Charpentier Et Fasquelle, Eugène Fasquelle, Éditeur hardcover
39156Bantam. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer-- . Bantam paperback
1898022208Lamson Wolfe and company 1898. This green hard cover is very well rubbed. It is dirty has smudges and the corners are well bumped and frayed with chunks missing. The spine is missing the top layer of the front cover and is frayed and ripped and nicked it is still attached to the main body of the book. The fore-edge is well tanned as is the inside body of the book. . Hard Cover. Fair-. Lamson, Wolfe and company Hardcover
8719<p>First edition. Barbier designed the sets and costumes for the Bouffes-Parisiens production of Maurice Rostand's Casanova in February 1919. The 24 fine costume plates here are coloured by Jacomet et compagnie.<br />The commission for Casanova was an important moment in Barbier's artistic career leading to commissions with theatres the Ballet Russes and the Folies Bergère. Other successes followed and for a time he was the most sought-after costume designer in Paris recognized as the theatrical artist 'who better than any other had captured the mood of the age' Gordon Ray.</p><p>4to 245 × 190 mm pp. 4 iv 2. 24 pochoir coloured plates some with gold and silver. Loose as issued in original decorative portfolio. Slightly soiled wants ties but still a very good copy.</p> Lucien Vogel.
H2482Hardcover. Very Good. From the estate of Edmond Roze a copyist's version in typewritten and manuscript pages with multiple notes marginalia corrections additions bound in half cloth and marbled boards approximately 150 pp. Roze 1878-1943 was a theatre impresario director actor and stage manager. The premier of this play featured a set designed by Georges Barbier. Some of the additions are undoubtedly in Rostand's hand others are by Roze. Rostand was the son of Edmond Rostand and was openly homosexual a friend of Jean Cocteau and an author of poems novels and plays. hardcover
189833116Boston: Lamson Wolffe and Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE Binding; 1st Editions; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 241 pages; Nicely full bound in brown pigskin with gilt lettering and borders turned in denteles. Printed on rich laid paper. T E G. Owner's name neatly on an endpaper. Silk marker ribbon. Frontis shows Richard Mansfield as Cyrano. Performed by him at Garden Theater on opening Oct 3 1898. Contents clean and complete. Binding solid. . Lamson, Wolffe and Co hardcover
1900220657Paris: Charpentier 1900. First. 8vo original printed wrappers lacking the spine. Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle 1900. First Edition. TOGETHER WITH the first American Edition translated by Louis Parker in blue cloth decoratively stamped in gold. N.Y.: R.H. Russell 1900. Fine copy. 2 volumes each with a cloth dust wrapper in a double 1/2 morocco slipcase.<br/> <br/> The French edition bears a presentation from Rostand with an initialed postscript and an initialed ink drawing of a figure in uniform with a sword. The American edition has three presentations to the same indefatigable collector: a 6 line inscription from Louis Parker the translator dated 1901 Rostand who compliments the translator in 1902 and Maude Adams who was in the cast of the New York production in 1904. A unique set.<br/> <br/> Charpentier unknown
19006813Paris: Librairie Charpentieret Fasquelle 1900. Large thick 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches 262pp. Superbly bound by Captain Gladstone with gilt-tooled signature CEG to lower front dentelle in full black crushed morocco and featuring a bold gilt-tooled all-over design on both covers spine and wide dentelles consisting of a broad winding leafed stem design culminating in three blossoms each. A most pleasing and innovative design. Silk light olive green doublures top edges gilt. No. 40 of only 180 copies on “Japon†paper. Original green color illustrator card wrappers bound-in at the end. Fine condition. Librairie Charpentieret Fasquelle unknown
1898009258Paris France: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquella 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 225pp 1898. Quarter leather with spine and front and rear corners in leather. Marbled cover boards and endpapers. Gilt top edges. Four Spine bands Gilt spine label. Small wear to corners top and bottom edges and spine edges. Small tear at center top of front cover. Tight binding good hinges. A light penciled notation on the half-title page no other marks or tears. A very nice copy. Librairie Charpentier et Fasquella Hardcover
1898330564Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1898. First. hardcover. near fine. 8vo 3/4 brown crushed levant with gilt decorated spine & raised bands over marbled boards marbled end-papers; original green printed wrappes bound in. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1898. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Small scuff mark on one leather corner otherwise a fine copy of this classic with the Dumbarton Oaks bookplates of Robert Woods Bliss & Mildred Bliss.<br/> <br/> Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle unknown
18982212312Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1898. first. hardcover. fine. First edition in French. Leather spine marbled paper covers. Book in fine condition. Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle unknown
189842164Paris 1898. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with five raised bands gilt spine. Single gilt lines to boards. Capitals and corners worn. Inner hinges a bit weak. With Eugen Zabel's book plate to inside of front board a postcard depicting Edmond Rostand's residense at Cambo obviously posttamped on verso pasted on to front free end-paper contemporary newspaper-clipping about the numerous performances of "Cyrano von Bergerac" around the world pasted in to hinge of fly-leaf where the presentation-inscription for Eugène Zabel is written and finally the original handwritten address in Rostand's hand cut out from the envelope in which the book was sent to Zabel is pased into hinge of half-title. Internally nice and clean. <br/><br/><em>First edition 136th thousand same year as the first presentation-copy "à M. Eugène Zabel/ très cordial envoi -/ remerciement -/ et sympathie./ Edmond Rostand/ Octobre 98" of Rostand's masterpiece which against all odds became one of the most popular plays of the century and an overnight success throughout Europe.At the end of the 19th century in France as well as in the rest of Europe the industrialization was the force that dominated almost all aspects of society i.e. everything from politics and sociology to science art philosophy etc. And thus also literature and theatre in this period were products of this new power. This meant that the trend that became prevailing within literature and drama was that of realism which in France soon developed into naturalism. In the midst of this all-encompassing emphasis on objective documentation of everyday life which rejected romance idealization and dreaming of any kind emerged suddenly a work that no one could believe would have any success whatsoever but which against all odds became the hugest dramaturgical success of the period and a theatrical monument that has been remembered ever since and which still stands as thus: Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" the unlikely play about romantic heroes fairy-tale like maidens medieval-inspired sword-fights about poetry love and art. The play had been taken on already in 1897 when the manuscript was finished but the directors of the theatre regretted their decision immediately not least due to the public reaction to the "outdated" romantic comedy-drama which nobody would want to go see and thus they severely cut the budget so that Rostand had to pay for all the costumes himself. Even the actor playing the main part a leading actor at the time regretted having taken the part and Rostand is reported to have apologized to him for involving him in this "disastrous adventure". "Therefore when the curtain rose on "Cyrano de Bergerac" for the first time on December 28 1897 expectations were low. The audience however was about to be pleasantly surprised. From the hero's last first majestic entrance to his last farewell he transfixed his viewers. Theatergoers cheered Cyrano's triumphs sighed at his suffering laughed at his witty wordplay and cried as his fate became known. A full hour after the curtain fell the audience was still applauding thunderously. It is not easy to explain why Rostand's play confounded everyone by becoming one of the century's greatest smash hits. Perhaps the answer lies in "Cyrano de Bergerac's" stark contrast to the grimly realistic plays of its day which often focused on modern society's darkest problems. The figure of the swashbuckling Cyrano dueling his way across the stage and stunning his compatriots with his verbal cleverness took Paris by storm. In fact many critics both of Rostand's time and later attributed the play's tremendous success to its romanticism or emphasis on idealism and heroism." Glencoe Literature Library Study Guide for Cyrano de Bergerac.The work immediately became a huge success and within a very short amount of time it had been translated into almost all European languages and was performed at theatres throughout Europe.Eugen Zabel was a famous literary critic and author who at the time of "Cyrano de Bergerac" was editor of the "Nationalzeitung". He was born in Königsberg in 1851 and died in Berlin in 1925. In his youth he wrote poems and after his move to Berlin he worked as a journalist critic and writer. He did a lot of work on Russian themes both political historical topographical and literary and he became closely connected to the country. He was highly respected for his liiterary criticism and his opinions though often controversial played an important role in public opiniation. </em> hardcover
1898127212Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1898. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 1898 Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle first edition paperback in glassine jacket. Now in chemise and slipcase with leather spine. Bookplate to the inside of the front cover and light fox speckling to the top edge. Light foxing to pages. Please email for photos. Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle paperback
1898140943914Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1898. First Edition. First edition. 225 pp. Bound in publisher's pale green wraps. Very Good with slightly rubbed and toned wraps slight curve to bottom corner concave spine creased with a little chipping at ends occasional foxing to text. Nice condition overall. <p>The classic French play in verse about a multi-talented nobleman whose huge schnoz is the only thing standing in the way of his finding love-- namely the love of Roxane. He finds a hunk to be his proxy but things don't go smoothly. The basis of many stage and screen adaptations including the 1987 Steve Martin film Roxanne. Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle unknown
1898393604Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1898. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Original printed pale green wrappers. A bit smudged and soiled on the wrappers else near fine. Housed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. The classic French play about the large nosed Cyrano obliged to help another more handsome man woo the beautiful Roxanne who Cyrano already loves. Basis for several popular films including the 1950 production starring Jose Ferrer winner of the 1950 Oscar for the Best Actor. Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle unknown
31613Paris Charpentier et Fasquelle 1900. 1 vol. 145 x 210 mm de 262 p. 1 et 1 f. Broché sous couverture illustrée et emboîtage orné. . Edition originale. Exemplaire imprimé sur papier vert Empire. . L'Aiglon naquit aux Tuileries le 20 mars 1811 où cent un coups de canons annoncèrent aux Parisiens la naissance tant attendue du fils de l'empereur. Constitutionnellement muni du titre de « prince impérial » il reçoit en outre celui de « roi de Rome » : le baptême sera célébré le 9 juin en la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. La défaite de Waterloo contraindra Napoléon Ier à abdiquer en sa faveur mais le gouvernement provisoire de Fouché fera comme si de rien n'était et les chambres refuseront de proclamer celui qui se trouve depuis 1814 en exil à la cour d'Autriche. Il restera pour l'histoire celui qui a « régné » vingt jours du 22 juin au 7 juillet 1815. À Vienne il reçoit une solide instruction religieuse philosophique ou militaire sous l'affection de son grand-père l'Empereur François II le perdant d'Austerlitz et de Wagram qui pour sceller la paix et le traité de Schönbrunn avait offert à Napoléon sa fille aînée Marie-Louise d'Autriche qui deviendra la seconde épouse de Napoléon. Après l'abdication de Napoléon en 1815 François II lui donne le titre de duc de Reichstadt. Il sera élevé par sa mère et sa tante l'archiduchesse Sophie sous la gouvernance du comte de Dietrichstein. Le prince impérial meurt le 22 juillet 1832 âgé seulement de vingt et un ans au palais de Schönbrunn. Le diagnostic est celui d'une tuberculose foudroyante mais la thèse de l'empoisonnement n'a jamais été écartée. Sans alliance ni postérité sa disparition mettra quoi qu'il en soit un terme aux sentiments de fascination et de crainte des grandes cours d'Europe sur un éventuel retour aux affaires du seul descendant légitime de Napoléon Ier. Le 15 mars 1900 le public découvre pour la première fois la pièce d'Edmond Rostand et dans le rôle de l'Aiglon une comédienne costumée en homme : Sarah Bernhardt. Le succès est immense. La pièce donnera quelques immortelles et fameuses tirades dont celle de Séraphin Flambeau le grognard légendaire de la Grande Armée qui s'introduit à Schönbrunn auprès de l'Aiglon : « Nous les petits des obscurs des sans-grades » Acte II scène 9 un rôle endossé par Lucien Guitry puis par Coquelin l'Aîné. On ne connaît que quatre autres exemplaires sur ce papier : ceux nominatifs pour Octave Mirbeau Bibliothèque du bâtonnier J.-C.D Giquello 2018 n° 156 et Jean Richepin Tajan octobre 2018 n° 161 ; celui pour Mitzy Dalty comédienne de la Belle Époque et maîtresse de l'éditeur Fasquelle Bibliothèque Natural PBA 2009 n° 567 avec l'ex-libris de la comédienne et celui offert à Louis Barthou des bibliothèques Pierre Guérin puis Comte Emmanuel d'André. Tous sont reliés et celui-ci probablement d'auteur est le seul conservé broché. Couverture habilement restaurée. Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900. 1 vol. (145 x 210 mm) de 262 p., [1] et 1 f. Broché, sous couverture illustrée et emboà unknown
1899ST20804Paris: Armand Magnier 1899. No. 42 OF 500 COPIES this ONE OF 20 ON JAPON WITH ENGRAVINGS IN THREE STATES. 300 x 207 mm. 12 x 8". 4 p.l. <br/> ELEGANT SCARLET CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND INLAID BY THE CLUB BINDERY and LEON MAILLARD Finisher both names stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-ins covers framed by curling gilt vines bearing citron morocco blossoms a total of 104 inlays on each cover raised bands spine panels with gilt vine circlets blooming with a total of 20 inlaid citron morocco flowers gilt lettering turns-ins elaborately gilt marbled endpapers top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Original paper wrappers bound in the pictorial front cover present in three additional states black & white B&W before letters and color. In slightly worn matching morocco-backed jacket. With 54 wood engravings by Romagnol after François Thévenot cover and portrait Adrien Moreau Act I Charles Léandre Act II Albert Laurens Act III François Flameng Act IV and Albert Besnard Act V including five full-page plates all in three states one before letters the full-page plates also in a color state separately furnished to subscribers by the publisher per a notice bound in at the end of the text. Front pastedown with morocco bookplate of Robert Hoe. Lower corners a bit bumped tail edge of lower board with shallow one-inch dent occasional paper flaws or discoloration to edges of leaves but an excellent copy the interior clean and fresh and the binding lustrous.<br/> <br/> This is a luxurious illustrated edition of Rostand's classic work offered in a sumptuous binding done by the Club Bindery for its co-founder and manager Robert Hoe. Rostand's influential and enduringly popular 1897 verse play in five acts--sometimes referred to colloquially as the "Romance of the Nose"--is loosely based upon the real-life story of the French author and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac 1619-55 who was famous for having a prodigious proboscis. A theatrical triumph from its opening night the play focuses on the eloquent Cyrano's unrequited love for the comely Roxanne whom he must court as secret proxy for a friend of handsome visage but wooden tongue. Rostand 1868-1918 wrote a number of successful plays often like "Cyrano" based on figures from French history. The present beautiful large-format copy was originally owned by Robert Hoe a founder of the Grolier Club and one of the world's great book collectors. After Grolier was established in 1884 it soon became apparent that the country's few established hand binders were overtaxed in providing repairs and rebinding for the club members' rapidly accumulating acquisitions. As a consequence in 1895 Grolier members along with Edwin Holden and other wealthy collectors established the Club Bindery in order to attract European craftsmen to provide close to home fine quality binding work rivalling what was available abroad. The Club Bindery was in operation until 1909 with Hoe being its manager and most important client. It provided bindings that tended to be traditional in style--though frequently with elaborate decoration--and that lived up to its patrons' expectations in terms of excellence. The first members of the staff of the Club Bindery were the Englishmen R. W. Smith and Frank Mansell. They were subsequently joined by a number of French binders chief among them being Leon Maillard who had worked previously for Cuzin Gruel and Marius-Michel and whose precise and intricate finishing is impressively demonstrated on our binding here. It is said by Beverly Chew that Hoe 1839-1911 had a collection that was "the finest America has ever contained." He acquired illuminated manuscripts early printing he owned a Gutenberg Bible on paper and one on vellum fine bindings French and English literature and Americana and when his library was sold in 1911-12 it fetched nearly $2 million a record that held until the Streeter sale more than 50 years later. The present volume represents the fine level of aesthetic achievement typical of the bindery and it is especially impressive because of its significant dimensions. Armand Magnier unknown
1898570Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1898. First Edition. Fine. 12mo 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.192 x 133 mm 225 pp. 1898 Riviere and Son binding in red crushed morocco Art Nouveau leaf-spray devices gilt to spine and covers gilt fillets on turn-ins and binder's mark which reads "R. Riviere & Son for L.S. Montagu 1898" t.e.g others untrimmed marbled endpapers original wrappers bound in at rear. A beautifully-bound first edition of the classic French play about the large-nosed Cyrano obliged to help another more handsome man woo the beautiful Roxanne who Cyrano already loves. Rostand's play stages the tragic complicity between two halves of man puts into question the existence of justice or happy love in this world but ends with the evidence of hope: in the guise of Christian it is the soul of Cyrano that Roxanne loved. This drama in five acts saw its first production on December 27th 1897 with the leading role played by Constant Coquelin who went on to play the role 410 times and toured the play in North America. The dedication of this book reads " C'est à l'âme de CYRANO que je voulais dédier ce poème. Mais puisqu'elle a passé en vous COQUELIN c'est à cous que le dédie. E. R." I wanted to dedicate this poem to the soul of CYRANO. Since that soul has passed through you COQUELIN I dedicated to you. E.R. Rostand was elected to the prestigious Académie Française the following year making him the youngest member to date at age 31. <br /> Cyrano has been performed all over the world and has seen many cinematic adaptations including the 1950 production starring Jose Ferrer winner of the 1950 Oscar for the Best Actor. <br /> <br /> The binder's mark indicates that this copy prepared in London specifically for the library of L. S. Monatagu Louis Samuel 2nd Baron Sawythling: 1869-1927 a prominent member of the British Jewish community a financier and political activist. Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle unknown
24045Paris Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1900. 1 vol. 143 x 215 mm de 262 et 2 p. Bradel demi-maroquin vert à coins dos lisse titre doré date en pied couvertures et dos conservés reliure de l'époque. . Édition originale. Frontispice de Louise Abbéma représentant Sarah Bernhardt dans le rôle de l'Aiglon. La couverture est ornée sur le premier plat d'une composition dorée en relief par René Lalique. Un des rares exemplaires imprimés sur papier vert Empire celui-ci nominatif pour Octave Mirbeau. Il est enrichi de 2 portraits gravés celui de l'Aiglon publié par Blaisot et celui de Rostand gravé par Desmoulin avec pour remarque le visage de Sarah Bernhardt. . L'Aiglon naquit aux Tuileries le 20 mars 1811 où cent un coups de canons annoncèrent aux Parisiens la naissance tant attendue du fils de l'empereur. Constitutionnellement muni du titre de « prince impérial » il reçoit en outre celui de « roi de Rome » : le baptême sera célébré le 9 juin en la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. La défaite de Waterloo contraindra Napoléon Ier à abdiquer en sa faveur mais le gouvernement provisoire de Fouché fera comme si de rien n'était et les chambres refuseront de proclamer celui qui se trouve depuis 1814 en exil à la cour d'Autriche. Il restera pour l'histoire celui qui a « régné » vingt jours du 22 juin au 7 juillet 1815. À Vienne il reçoit une solide instruction religieuse philosophique ou militaire sous l'affection de son grand-père l'Empereur François II le perdant d'Austerlitz et de Wagram qui pour sceller la paix et le traité de Schönbrunn avait offert à Napoléon sa fille aînée Marie-Louise d'Autriche qui deviendra la seconde épouse de Napoléon. Après l'abdication de Napoléon en 1815 François II lui donne le titre de duc de Reichstadt. Il sera élevé par sa mère et sa tante l'archiduchesse Sophie sous la gouvernance du comte de Dietrichstein. Le prince impérial meurt le 22 juillet 1832 âgé seulement de vingt et un ans au palais de Schönbrunn. Le diagnostic est celui d'une tuberculose foudroyante mais la thèse de l'empoisonnement n'a jamais été écartée. Sans alliance ni postérité sa disparition mettra quoi qu'il en soit un terme aux sentiments de fascination et de crainte des grandes cours d'Europe sur un éventuel retour aux affaires du seul descendant légitime de Napoléon Ier. Le 15 mars 1900 le public découvre pour la première fois la pièce d'Edmond Rostand et dans le rôle de l'Aiglon une comédienne costumée en homme : Sarah Bernhardt. Le succès est immense. La pièce donnera quelques immortelles et fameuses tirades dont celle de Séraphin Flambeau le grognard légendaire de la Grande Armée qui s'introduit à Schönbrunn auprès de l'Aiglon : « Nous les petits des obscurs des sans-grades » Acte II scène 9 un rôle endossé par Lucien Guitry puis par Coquelin l'Aîné. On ne connaît que quatre autres exemplaires sur ce papier : celui pour Jean Richepin Tajan octobre 2018 n° 161 ; celui pour Mitzy Dalty comédienne de la Belle Époque et maîtresse de l'éditeur Fasquelle Bibliothèque Natural PBA 2009 n° 567 avec l'ex-libris de la comédienne celui offert à Louis Barthou des bibliothèques Pierre Guérin puis Comte Emmanuel d'André et un exemplaire probablement d'auteur conservé broché. Des bibliothèques Octave Mirbeau I 1919 n° 642 ; Raoul Simonson II 2013 n°627 ; J.-C.D Giquello 2018 n° 156. Paris, Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900. 1 vol. (143 x 215 mm) de 262 et [2] p. Bradel demi-maroquin vert à coins, dos unknown
1898000927London England: LAMSON WOLFFE & CO. Very Good. 1898. On offer is a true first English edition 1898 of Edmond Rostand's brilliant 'Cyrano de Bergerac' published by Lamson Wollfe London. This book is from the library of Edmond Rostand signed & inscribed to him in French by the translator Howard Thayer Kingsbury. Extraordinary opportunity to own this rare first edition of the true first translation from the library of the author and dated in his own hand. Condition: Slight chipping to head of spine. Some light rubbing otherwise VG. ; English; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; antiquité d'antiquariato LETTER AUTOGRAPH HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL LITERATURE AUTHORS FRENCH BUCH . LAMSON, WOLFFE & CO. unknown
