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An Author's Love. Being the unpublished letters of Prosper Mérimée's 'Inconnue'.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF MÉRIMÉE'S CLASSIC LOVE LETTERS
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.
Bound in the same style as our copy of St. Pierre's
Paul and Virginia.
£180.00
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