Le Juif Errant by Eugene Sue - 1845

Brussels - H. Bourlard, 1845 Book. GOOD ONLY. Hardcover. A charming little set of Joseph Marie Eugene Sue's popular serial novel. He was strongly affected by the Socialist ideas of the day, and these prompted his most famous works, the anti-Catholic novels: Les Mystres de Parisand Le Juif errant. The latter, offered here in an early edition (printed one year after the original publication date of 1844), was a serially published novel, which attained great popularity in Paris, and beyond. le Juif errant isheld to have influenced legislation on the Jesuits, and caused a general jesuitophobie. The novel is over 800 pages long. An opera, Le Juif errant, by Fromental Halvy, was based on elements of the novel. Featuring unusual and sporadicpagination throughout. With neat ink inscription dated 1944 to verso of each front blank. Complete in five volumes. Condition: In half diced calf bindings with marbled boards. Externally, rubbed in palaces with some heavier wear to the spines. Backstrips of volumes I and V are lifting and may detach in post. 6 of 10 joints starting. Internally, firmly bound. Some light spotting, largely confined to first and last few pages of each volume. Otherwise pages are clean and bright with just a few scholarly pencil annotations. Overall: GOOD ONLY..