Zola EmileABAA
Zola EmileABAA
His Excellency . With a Preface by Ernest A. Vizetelly
1897260787London: Chatto & Windus 1897. Sole Authorized English Edition. 2 ads xvii i ii 359 1 pp. 32 pp. ads dated Feb. 1897. 8vo. Publisher's red illustrated cloth. Spine darkened with small closed tear at head very good. Sole Authorized English Edition. 2 ads xvii i ii 359 1 pp. 32 pp. ads dated Feb. 1897. 8vo. Inscribed by Zola's Publisher. Signed presentation copy from Ernest Alfred Vizetelly °™ publisher translator and companion to Emile Zola during his exile in England following The Dreyfus Affair. °∞H.P. Parrott Esq With the regard of Ernest Vizetelly. July 1897.°±<br/>The Vizetelly firm shook things up with the Victorian book trade when they introduced first English translations of works from Realist Paris: first appearances in English of Gautier The Goncourt Brothers Flaubert and otherÄ°∞Sensational°± French novelists. After fines jail time and the steady demise of his company Vizetelly sold the rights for his own Zola°©-authorized English translations to Messrs. Chatto and Windus. Vizetelly would continue to write prefaces for later editions of his Zola translations printed with Chatto. Vizetelly°Øs 12 page preface to this volume dated April 1897 notes that °∞The present translation was not made by me but I have revised it somewhat severely°±. Chatto & Windus unknown books
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