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1846435822ª. Ed.- Paris: Publie par J. Hetzel Imp. Centrale de Napoleon Chaix et Cie. 1846.- 2 h. 468 p.; 8º 18 x 113 cm; Media Piel época.- Oeuvres de Stendhal. La encuadernación algo rozada pero restaurada quedando en bastante buen estado. LITERATURA Y ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS EXTRANJEROS DE LOS SIGLOS XVI-XXI Livre en français Publie par J. Hetzel (Imp. Centrale de Napoleon Chaix et Cie.) hardcover
181491120Paris: Chez H. NicolleDe l'Imprimerie de C.-F. Patris 1814. Fine. Anonymous work attributed to Anna Maria Porter which inspired Stendhal's masterpiece ""La Chartreuse de Parme"" Chez H. Nicolle De l'Imprimerie de C.-F. Patris Paris 1814 10.2 x 17.4 cm Relié First edition of the French translation by Élisabeth de Bon gathering in 2 volumes the 4 parts of this anonymous English novel originally printed in 1809 which according to André Marc in his Dictionnaire des romans anciens et modernes of 1819 is the work of Anna Maria Porter younger sister of the novelist Jane Porter. The Porter sisters contemporaries of Jane Austen and famous before the Brontës were close to the Scottish poet Walter Scott. Contemporary full brown tree sheep smooth spines divided into compartments richly gilt in decorative rolls of laurels annulets and lozenges two compartments with a lozenge network formed by interlacing fillets with fleurons at the corners red and green morocco lettering-piece and numbering-piece blind-tooled fillet border to boards gilt fillet to turn-ins edges sprinkled red marbled endpapers in pebbled pattern. Some light surface wear and minor offsetting to boards corners slightly worn. On volume 1 a charming error in the decorative roll at foot of spine corrected by the binder. On volume 2 small piece of leather at the edge of the numbering-piece slightly detaching. Scattered foxing and faint marginal damp-staining to upper margins. In volume 3 two minor marginal repairs to half-title and p. 8. Several period textual corrections in brown ink and pencil: volume 1 p. 131 volume 2 p. 90 and volume 3 p. 21. In the early nineteenth century English novels were widely translated into French. According to the critic signing as ""E."" in the Journal de l'Empire Les Frères Anglais is a success and according to another reviewer writing for the Gazette de France the French translation as much as the original text deserves praise: ""We have already had the opportunity in this Gazette to praise the translator. English novels are much vaunted but the choice is vast; some prove mediocre and even detestable. This one does honour to the good sense of Madame Elisabeth de B. The situations are lively and varied the characters well drawn; the work pleases and holds one's attention from beginning to end."" Gazette de France December 4 1814 ""What astonishes readers who cannot transport themselves into the society whose customs are depicted and who insist on judging everything by the habits of their own circle is the liberty of young English ladies. If their novels offer a faithful picture of their manners and habits these young women converse familiarly in tête-à-tête with their suitors; they write to them even give them their portraits; they tell their parents without ceremony that their heart is engaged. Never would a French demoiselle make such a frank avowal; at most she allows her secret to be guessed."" Journal de l'Empire May 10 1815 our own translation Two women of letters were behind this literary success: Élisabeth de Bon a translator renowned in her lifetime also a novelist short-story writer and co-proprietor of the periodical the Mercure de France and a mysterious authoress. The name of Anna Maria Porter absent from the title-page would be revealed by the bookseller André Marc as that of the author in 1819. Precocious and prolific Anna Maria began writing and publishing books during adolescence nearly a decade before her elder sister Jane. In 1807 she published The Hungarian Brothers and in 1809 she is thought to have written The English Brothers. These two works with their near-identical titles like false twins are the starting point according to Richard Bolster for the attribution of the latter novel to Anna Maria Porter. It was precisely the same translator Élisabeth de Bon who undertook the translation of the third edition of The Hungarian Brothers in 1818 and in 1815 that of another of the author's works The Recluse of Norway. The En Chez H. NicolleDe l'Imprimerie de C.-F. Patris hardcover
1808689671808. Fine. 26 mars 1808 20 x 24.80 cm 3 pages 1/2 sur un double feuillet Long autograph letter by Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline written in fine handwriting with black ink. Address of Stendhal's father where his sister resides in Grenoble with the stamp ""n°51 Grande Armée."" Red wax seal bearing Stendhal's coat of arms. Several original folds inherent to postal delivery. A paper loss due to the unsealing of the letter has been skillfully restored. Published in his Correspondance ed. Henri Martineau Paris Le Divan 1933 vol. 3 no. 262 A pp. 26-29. A very beautiful letter filled with romantic passion blending childhood nostalgia with sentimental tales and foreshadowing The Red and the Black. This letter is part of the correspondence between twenty-five years old Henri Beyle and his sister Pauline three years his junior. This epistolary relationship which quickly took the form of a ""journal"" as Pauline's responses were rare. It is deemed a crucial milestone in the intellectual development of the future Stendhal: ""Here are my dreams my dear friend; I am almost ashamed of them; but after all you are the only person in the world to whom I dare confess them."" In this letter which attests to the strong bond between brother and sister Stendhal then in Germany expresses his deep nostalgia: ""I revisited in my memory all the time we spent together: how I did not love you in our childhood; how I once hit you at Claix in the kitchen. I hid in the little book cabinet; my father came back a moment later furious and said to me: 'Wicked child! I would eat you!' Then all the woes inflicted upon us by poor Aunt Séraphie; our walks along those paths surrounded by stagnant water towards Saint-Joseph."" These regrets about the past are accompanied by a typically Stendhalian melancholy: ""Alas! That delightful happiness I once imagined I glimpsed it once at Frascati and a few other times in Milan. Since then it has not returned; I marvel at my inability to feel it. The mere memory of it is more powerful than all the present joys I can procure."" This evocation of the Italy he longs for is intertwined with memories of the women he loved: ""I told you that while in Frascati at a charming fireworks display at the moment of the explosion Adèle leaned on my shoulder for an instant; I cannot express how happy I was. For two years whenever I was overwhelmed with sorrow this image gave me courage and made me forget all my troubles. I had long forgotten it; I tried to recall it today. Against my will I see Adèle as she is; but as I am now there is no longer the slightest joy in this memory."" This lengthy account of Adèle Rebuffet his cousin with whom he had a profound romantic relationship before forming a closer bond with her mother reflects Stendhal's sentimentality. He also mentions another of his great passions Angelina Pietragrua the ideal Italian woman and embodiment of his Milanese memories: ""Madame Pietragrua is different: her memory is linked to that of the Italian language; whenever something pleases me in a role for a woman in a work I involuntarily put it into her mouth."" This ""role for a woman"" that Stendhal refers to echoes the central theme of this letter the work Il Matrimonio segreto by composer Cimarosa: ""Do you sometimes play the Matrimonio Its the passage Cara sposa at the beginning between Carolina and Paolino. . But play the Matrimonio for my sake especially Signor deh permettette and the finale Io rival de mia sorella."" This opera by Cimarosa remained a constant throughout the writer's life and work. In his Memoirs of an Egotist 1832 he explains: ""In Milan in 1820 I wanted to have this written on my tomb . I wanted a marble tablet in the shape of a playing card: ""Errico Beyle - Milanese - Visse scrisse amò - Quest'anima adorava Cimarosa Mozart e Shakspeare - Morì di anni. il . 18."" ""Henri Beyle - Milanese - He lived wrote loved - This soul adored Cimarosa Mozar unknown
1892134884Paris: Calmann-Levy 1892. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. 3/4 cloth iii 335pp. FRENCH TEXT. Burgundy cloth over marbled boards Calmann-Levy hardcover
181478167Paris: De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné 1814. Fine. De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné Paris 1814 12.50 x 20.50 cm relié De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné Paris 1814 125 x 205 cm bound in calf First edition of Stendhal's very first book published under the pseudonym of Louis-Alexandre-César Bombet. Contemporary binding in half brown calf spine decorated with gilt fillets and tooling as well as a red morocco title piece. Very rare according to Clouzot De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné unknown
186789582Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1867. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1867 12 x 18.7 cm Relié  Partly original edition with no mention of a deluxe paper issue. Half black shagreen binding spine with five raised bands tooled with gilt garlands gilt date at foot marbled paper boards comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns gilt edges contemporary binding. Pleasant copy.   Michel Lévy frères hardcover
185404272Paris: Michel Lévy Frères 1854. Hardcover. Fine. 188 x 12 cm - 362 - 372 pgs - demi chagrin à coins - dos lis avec totre auteur et date estampés en or 1 caisson avec double filet et fleurons - couverture originale conservée - dos un peu décoloré - interieur bien - ex-libris - Bibliographie Stendhalienne 2-2 <br /> Michel Lévy Frères hardcover
185589587Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1855. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1855 11.8 x 18.8 cm Relié Partly first edition.Half black shagreen binding spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt garlands date gilt at foot marbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns gilt edges.Some scattered foxing. Michel Lévy frères hardcover
18981501274Paris.: Calmann Lévy. 1898. Hardcover. Cubierta deslucida. CONTIENE PARRAFOS SUBRAYADOS Y ANOTACIONES A BOLIGRAFO NEGRO. Good. 18 cm. 2 vols. en un tomo. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal lomo en piel con dorados nervios decorados y doble tejuelo. Idioma francés . Cubierta deslucida. CONTIENE PARRAFOS SUBRAYADOS Y ANOTACIONES A BOLIGRAFO NEGRO. Geografía del mundo antiguo. Geografía regional. Roma. R. Siglo XIX. 913450.621 R."18" 913 Literatura francesa. Descripción de viajes. Siglo XIX. 821.133.1-992"18" 821.133.1 Calmann Lévy. hardcover
183048307Bruxelles Louis Hauman et Cie 1830. Small 8vo. Bound uncut in 2 later boards of patterned paper with printed paperlabel on spine. Volume 1 bound with the orig. printed wrappers. 2 engraved frontispieces Colonne Trajane and St. Pierre de Rome. IV355;2468 pp. and 1 folded engraved plan. Some soiling to plates. <br/><br/><em>This is edition is printed a year after the first edition Paris 1829. </em> hardcover
182366771A Paris: Chez Bossange Delaunay Mongie & Les Marchands de Nouveautés 1823. M. de. Beyle Henri. Racine et Shakspeare. and No. II. À Paris: Chez Bossange père DeLaunay Mongie and Les Marchands De Nouveautes 1823 1825.<br> <br> Very scarce first edition of both volumes. Two octavo volumes in one 8 3/16 x 5 inches; 209 x 127 mm. 1-55 1 blank; 4 3 advertisements 1-103 1 errata pp. Half-titles for both volumes.<br> <br> Bound together in twentieth-century half brown levant morocco over marbled paper boards by Stroobants. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top-edge gilt others partially uncut. Red silk page-marker. A few pages trimmed shorter at the fore-edge but with no loss of text. Some minor marking to back board. A bit of very light foxing. Overall an excellent near fine copy.<br> <br> Marie-Henri Beyle known under his pseudonym de Stendhal was born in Grenoble France in 1783 and died in Paris in 1842. Although employed at various military and government posts throughout his life his underlying passion for art and literature is expressed in his writings penned between 1812 and 1839. His peers and contemporaries included Honoré de Balzac Victor Hugo and George Sand. Perhaps most famous for his novel Le Rouge et le Noir 1831 his earlier essays and short works reveal his artistic and literary development. This polemic treatise signaled Stendhal's entry into the struggle between classicism and romanticism. A second essay on Racine and Shakespeare referred to as 'Shakespeare II' was published in 1825 of which is also present here.<br> <br> Ebisch & Schüking A Shakespeare Bibliography p. 151; Lalanne Dictionnaire Historique de la France p. 284-5; Lanson Gustave Manuel Bibliographique de la Litterature Française Moderne 19078. Not in OCLC Bibliotheque Nationale de France or Brunet.<br> <br> HBS 66771.<br> <br> $3500. Chez Bossange, Delaunay, Mongie & Les Marchands de Nouveautés unknown
1898017869New York New York U.S.A.: Brentano's 1898. Book. Very Good . Hardcover. 1st Edition. Previous owner's ink name some minor soiling and spotting front and rear hinges starting else a very nice copy bright gilt lettering and black and red striped covers. The first American edition published the same year as the limited edition from G.H. Richmond & Son and published 2 years before the first English edition. A scarce copy of this classic novel. . Brentano's Hardcover
1900170923005London: Downey and Company Limited 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First British trade edition. vi 439pp. Original black cloth lettered in gilt with red decoration. A Near Fine copy with light rubbing along bottom edge offsetting from long-gone bookplate or slip on paste down otherwise intenally clean and bright. Lengthy gift inscription from former owner on front free endpaper in remembrance of mutual service in World War I British munitions unit small stamp from said unit below and owners' emboss on rear endpaper. <p>An elegant copy of the French masterpiece widely considered one of the world's first psychological novels. An extremely scarce edition with no other copies for sale in the trade few institutional copies shown in OCLC and none recorded at auction. Downey and Company, Limited hardcover
1898140948475New York: Brentano's 1898. First Edition. Very Good. First American trade edition. ii 439 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped with black chevrons and lettered in gilt. Very Good with light rubbing to cloth more pronounced at corners sunning to spine and light stains to upper edge of textblock. Front hinge exposed and tender owner signature in an old hand to front free endpaper and small bookseller stamp to back pastedown. Overopened at several places contents lightly toned.<br /> <br /> <p>A scarce early English-language appearance of the novel Le Rouge et le Noir published the same year as the limited edition from G.H. Richmond & Son translated by Robins priority unknown. Precedes the first UK by two years. Encylopedia of Literary Trans. O. Classe 1331. Brentano's unknown
1898140949339New York: Brentano's 1898. First edition. Very Good. First American trade edition. ii 439 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped with black chevrons and lettered in gilt. Very Good with sunned spine moderate rubbing to covers and light soiling to cloth and textblock edges. Light dampstaining to upper corners of boards and endpapers smudges and ownership signature dated 1913 to front free endpaper. A little overopened at several places.<br /> <br /> <p>A scarce early English-language appearance of the novel Le Rouge et le Noir published the same year as the limited edition from G.H. Richmond & Son translated by Robins priority unknown. Precedes the first UK by two years. Encylopedia of Literary Trans. O. Classe 1331. Brentano's unknown
185489589Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1854. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1854 11.7 x 18.8 cm Relié Edition largely original.Half black shagreen binding spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt garlands gilt date at foot marbled paper boards comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns gilt edges.Some foxing chiefly at the beginning and end of the volume. Michel Lévy frères hardcover
185473653Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1854. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1854 11.50 x 19 cm broché Edition with most parts in first edition. Joints cracked and reglued one restoration using an adhesive strip on the reverse of the front cover. Contains: Armance Mina de Wangel San Francesco à Ripa Philibert Lescale and Souvenirs d'un gentilhomme italien. Michel Lévy frères unknown
1818031792London: Henry Colburn 1818. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xi339 Pp. First English Edition And First English Translation 1818 Following The 1817 First Edition Published In France. Half Calf Colored Morocco Spine Labels Gilt One Recent Calf Tips Over Peach Cloth Marbled Endpapers 5 Bands Gilt Spine With Center Tools Top Edge Gilt. Light Wear Fraying At Tips Small Repaired Chip At Lower Left Edge Of Spine Refurbished. Stendhal's Too Frank Travel Observations Scarce In This First English Translation. His Observations At Geneva Begin "The Prudery Of The Women At Geneva Is Incredible And Truly Ridiculous. I Have Observed That They Say Exactly The Same Thing To Every Stranger Presented To Them. To Repeat A Certain Formula Taught Them By Their Nurses. I Would Fain Know Who The Traveler Is That First Asserted There Was Such A Thing As Liberty In Switzerland. At Geneva And Berne There Are Four Hundred Surveillans. If You Offend Them Only By The Manner In Which Your Cravat Is Tied You Immediately Become An Object Of Their Persecution." Further Observations Made The Likelihood Of A Further English Translation Small Indeed: "Nothing Can Equal My Admiration Of The English Legislature Unless It Be The Repulsion I Feel From English Society. They Are The Most Unsocial Of Beings; Perhaps For That Reason The Least Happy. To Be Held In Consideration By An Englishman The Most Perfect Air Of Coldness Must Be Assumed." I Don't See Such Observations In My Michelin Or Lonely Planet Guides Perhaps We Have Evolved Or Perhaps We Are Too Terrified To Speak Out. <br/> <br/> Henry Colburn hardcover
181788398Paris Paris: DelaunayPelicier 1817. Fine. Delaunay Pelicier Paris Paris 1817 13 x 20 cm Relié Rare first edition as referenced by Clouzot see Guide du bibliophile français XIXe siècle p. 256. A few insignificant spots of foxing a small black ink stain at the bottom of pages 354355. Complete with the errata leaf at the end of the volume. Caramel half calf binding spine with five raised bands ruled with gilt dotted lines and decorated with gilt and black tools gilt fillets at head and foot of spine. Minor rubbing to the spine. Brown morocco title label. Marbled paper-covered boards framed with blind-stamped vertical rolls endpapers and pastedowns in cats-eye paper all edges gilt. Roman booksellers label at the top of a pastedown. Period-style binding signed in blind by Durvand. Rare and important work cf. Carteret notable for being the first to bear Stendhals pseudonym on the title page. DelaunayPelicier hardcover
182673643Paris: Delaunay 1826. Fine. Delaunay Paris 1826 13.50 x 21.50 cm 2 volumes brochés Third original edition: ""In reality an entirely new work completely rewritten by Stendhal and expanded by one volume"" cf Clouzot. The second edition was in fact only a reissue after a few weeks of the original edition with a new title page bearing publisher Colburn's address and mention of ""second edition"". This ""third edition"" is therefore the true second original edition much more complete than the first. Covers slightly and partially browned without gravity some minor foxing. Very rare copy as issued in original wrappers. Delaunay unknown
18181242E001London: Henry Colburn 1818. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xi 1 339. Very Good. 5.25 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Later half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with five raise bands and leather title label. Marbled page edges. Excellent solid binding. Offsetting to corners of endpapers title page and final page of text. Scattered foxing to text staining to a few pages. Two bookplates to front pastedown endpaper: Sir John Hollams and Panof Grafsos Skinos. The rare first English language edition. This was the first of Beyle's works to use the pen name Stendhal. Includes the preface that was omitted in all later French editions. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.25 x 8.5 inches 14 x 21.5 cm. Henry Colburn hardcover
1810Stendhal3<p><strong>STENDHAL Henri Beyle dit 1783-1842</strong></p><p>Autograph letter to his sister Pauline Périer-Lagrange<br />N.p " Sunday " 13rd May 1810 3 p. 1/4 in-4°<br />Autograph address on fourth page<br />Missing wax seal without affecting the words small tears on folds</p><p><strong>Stendhal despairs of know Victorine Mounier escaping him and consoles himself in the arms of another woman</strong></p><p><em>" Il paraît que je ne pourrai pas me dispenser d'aller faire un tour à Lyon. C'est un contre-temps très marqué pour les intérêts d'ambition. <strong>Pour les autres tu sens si je puis m'affliger d'une destination qui me donne l'espoir de te revoir</strong>. Mais pendant mon absence qui pressera ma nomination et une fois nommé qui sera là pour me faire employer à Paris et éviter la triste sous-préfecture Je serai C</em>ommissaire <em>d</em>es <em>G</em>uerres <em>de la place de Lyon beau poste mais accablé d'affaires pour lesquelles il faudra au moins trois ou quatre secrétaires que je ne pourrai pas engager car au premier signe officiel que je suis nommé je déserterai non pas pour aller boire mais pour me faire examiner. Mon ordre est du 8 j'aurais dû être à Lyon le 18 au plus tard. M. Charmat mon ordonnateur sera en colère d'avoir été chargé tout ce temps de l'ennuyeuse besogne de sous-ordre. Ce cruel-là me refusera la permission d'aller passer vingt-quatre heures à Grenoble. <strong>Voilà le plan du drame que je vais exécuter cet été</strong>. Je n'ai pas le temps de te parler de ta simple et charmante lettre. <strong>Tu ne m'annonces que de mauvaises nouvelles et cependant en lisant ta lettre j'étais beaucoup plus occupé de la finesse et de la simplicité charmante que j'y trouvais que du plat renard qui vient m'enlever ce qu'il n'appréciera pas et ce que j'aimais mieux que lui</strong></em> allusion au mariage de Victorine Mounier. <em>J'ai pris sans qu'il y parût des renseignements sur l'homme. C'est l'égoïste le plus sec et le cœur le plus étroit que nous connaissions me dit-on de toutes parts. <strong>Comment ton amie à qui je fais la justice de ne pas la croire aveuglée par l'amour ne voit-elle pas ce qui frappe tout le monde </strong></em><br /><em>Connais-tu quelqu'un à Lyon Envoie-moi une lettre de recommand</em>ati<em>on poste restante. J'y serai d'un beau sombre. <strong>Mes journées sont remplies ici par une femme dont je ne suis pas amoureux mais à laquelle je pense sans cesse. Depuis que je vois le départ sous mes pas je ne puis plus lire tant je pense à elle. Je crois qu'il ne faut qu'un peu d'absence à tout cela pour me remplir de la mélancolie la plus ridicule. Ce qui me le fait craindre c'est que je ne l'ai pas</strong>. Je te conterai tout ça et tu te moqueras de moi ferme. Je me conduis comme un respectable membre de Lycée. <strong>Il me semble que je partirai d'ici à huit jours par conséquent le commencement de juin me verra aux rives du Rhône en grossissant le cours de mes larmes amères</strong>.</em><br /><em>Ne dis pas mon voyage à Gr</em>enoble<em> même à nos parents. Il y a encore quelque possibilité de l'éviter. "</em></p><p>The feelings expressed here for Victorine Mounier 1783-1822 are not recent. He met her in 1806 in Grenoble when his friend Édouard Mounier introduced him to his sister. Knowing her little he imagines a thousand qualities and dreams of marriage. However she remains a "disembodied" love. He wrote first to his brother hoping that he would have his sister read the letters and then to Victorine herself without receiving a reply. Stendhal learned with spite of Victorine's marriage in 1811.<br />The year 1810 marked for Stendhal the beginning of his social ascent. Having been ordered to go to Lyon on May 11 1810 but which he finally decided to ignore he continued to frequent theaters read walk and write. Appointed auditor to the Council of State on 1 August he became inspector of furniture and buildings of the Crown in the autumn. Stendhal then frequented powerful characters and lived in the intimacy of Count Daru's family. He bought himself a fashionable convertible stamps with his initials rents an apartment more in line with his new status. His social situation put an end to his financial worries and made him hope for the barony mentioned at the beginning of the second letter but left him dissatisfied. In need of love he says: "This happiness of dress and money is not enough for me I must love and be loved".</p><p>Favorite sister of Henri Beyle Pauline 1786-1857 had married in 1808 François-Daniel Périer-Lagrange and lived then at the castle of Thuellin near Brangues where will take place the news item at the origin of the novel <em>Le Rouge et le noir</em>.<br />Widowed at the age of 31 Pauline must have been embarrassed because her husband had mismanaged his property. She escaped with the help of her brother who regularly paid her an annuity and bequeathed her modest possessions upon her death.</p><p><u>Bibliography:</u><br /><em>Lettres à Pauline</em> éd. L. Royer La Connaissance 1921 p. 79-80<br /><em>Correspondance générale</em> éd. V. Del Litto Honoré Champion t. II n°566</p><p><u>Provenance:</u><br />Dr Jean Marchand's collection</p>
181767090London: John Murry Albemarle-Street 1817. First edition in English 8vo pp. xv 1 496; engraved leaf of music several pages with musical notation; original drab paper-covered boards brown paper shelfback printed paper label; corners bumped spine toned and rubbed Q3-Q4 with clean tear at the top margin no loss light foxing very good. Small manuscript gift inscription on pastedown "Mrs. W. Blunt with WB's best wishes." The first English edition of Stendhal's first book written under a pseudonym and also translated by him. John Murry, Albemarle-Street unknown
183929030404Boston: J.H. Wilkins & R.B.Carter 1839. Gilt decorated blue ribbed cloth. Spine edges worn to boards in several places previous owner's name on endpaper front hinge lightly cracked and reglued: VG-/no dj. 12mo. J.H. Wilkins & R.B.Carter hardcover
1818012461London: John Murray 1818 Book. Good. Half leather. xiv ii 496 pages. End papers spotted occasional spotting throughout. Ink owners' names to the front free end paper one of them modern. Half leather binding worn at the edges. Leather splitting down the edges of the spine. According to entries on Library Hub - Bombet is a pseudonym for Stendhal. John Murray hardcover
