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Tony JOHANNOT

Notre-Dame de Paris

Charles Gosselin, Paris 1831, 14x22,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Notre-Dame de Paris [The Hunchback of Notre-Dame]
tCharles Gosselin | Paris 1831 | 14 x 22,5 cm | contemporary calf
First edition of 1 100 copies printed divided in four parts, the last three having on the title page, the name of the author and a false statement of the publisher (cf. Clouzot) ours with the statement «quatrième edition.»
Binding in half red calf; spine with gilt fillets and blind tooled romantic fleuron, boards in marbled paper, the endpapers and pastedown page in marbled paper, bookplates engraved and pasted on the inside board, strictly contemporary binding. Foxing, as usual.
The title pages illustrated with two wood-cut vignettes by Tony Johannot.
A precious copy, contemporary binding of very good quality, that is not commonly seen.
Provenance: from the collection of Madame Gabriel Delessert born Valentine de Laborde who held a Salon with a good reputation and which attracted many Romantic artists, such as Alfred de Musset, Eugène Delacroix, Marie D'Agoult. She was also the love and the muse of Prosper Mérimée. She was abandoned by Maxime Du Camp, and, in the end, was the inspiration for the character of Madame Dambreuse in L'éducation sentimentale of Gustave Flaubert.
«This first edition, in very good state, is the rarest of all the works of the author: it had a worldwide impact, and is one of his most difficult work to procure from the romantic period.» (Carteret)

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