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Rare and modern books

Edmond About (Edmond Adam And Juliette Lambert Association Copy)

Les mariages de Paris (with wood-engravings by Huyot after Piguet)

Les Amis des Livres,

750.00 €

Cole & Contreras Books

(Sitges, Spain)

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Author
Edmond About (Edmond Adam And Juliette Lambert Association Copy)
Publishers
Les Amis des Livres
Keyword
coleillus french feminisme feminism juliette lambert
Dust jacket
Yes
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
Yes

Description

COPY NUMBER 1. A charming illustrated edition, with dozens of wood-engravings by Huyot after Piguet, LIMITED TO ONLY 115 COPIES, ALL PRINTED ON FINE CHINESE PAPER WITH AN EXTRA SUITE OF THE WOOD-ENGRAVINGS PRINTED WITHOUT TEXT. This is COPY NUMBER 1, printed for About's close friend "Mme Edmond Adam", i.e., Juliette Lambert (1836-1936), noted writer, republican, and widow of prominent French politician Edmond Adam (1816-1877). She was an extremely accomplished and interesting woman, and among the regulars at her salon were Gambetta, Thiers, George Sand, Hanotaux, Alphonse and Julia Daudet, Hetzel, Bonnat, Sully-Prudhomme, Georges Clemenceau, Flaubert, Maupassant, Hugo, Turgenev, and About himself. 8vo. Original wraps. Light wear to extremities of wraps, else FINE AND BRIGHT, a pristine copy.
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