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FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF MÉRIMÉE'S CLASSIC LOVE LETTERS
An Author's Love. Being the unpublished letters of Prosper Mérimée's 'Inconnue'.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889.
2 vols., 8vo (8.25 x 5.5 inches). Half straight grain pink morocco bound for HATCHARDS Piccadilly, with scrolling gilt tooling framing title lettering to spine, cloth boards, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A superb set.
First English edition. A very pretty set of Mérimée's charming 'Inconnue' letters in English, which were post-humously published following his lifelong correspondence an anonymous girl, purported to be Jenny Dacquin, whom he met as a young girl in 1831. One of the foremost nineteenth-century French dramatists, Mérimée was also recognised as an historian, archaeologist and master of the short story. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, on which Bizet based his opera of the same name.
£180.00
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