Victor, ou l'enfant de la foret
by DUCRAY-DUMINEL, M. [Francois-Guillaume]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A Paris: Chez le Prieur, Libraire, [1798]. Four volumes. 242, [2]; 257, [1]; 275, [1]; 325pp, [1]. With half-title and engraved frontispiece to each volume. Finely bound in contemporary red half-morocco over marbled boards, gilt. Slightly rubbed to spines, bumping to corners. Marbled endpapers. Early ink inscription of E. Matheiu to head of each title, occasional marginal loss to text blocks. A handsome copy of the third edition of this popular romance of the French republic, by Francois Guillaume Ducray-Duminil (1761-1819), French novelist and song-writer whose novels were deemed 'stupid romances' by Hugo in Les Miserables. First published in 1796, it follow's the exploits of Victor, abandoned as a child in a seventeenth-century Bohemian forest, discovered and raised by a nobleman, only to rediscover his lineage in a chance encounter in that same forest. All early editions now appear remarkably scarce . Third edition. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ11086
- Title
- Victor, ou l'enfant de la foret
- Author
- DUCRAY-DUMINEL, M. [Francois-Guillaume]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Third edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez le Prieur, Libraire
- Place of Publication
- A Paris
- Date Published
- [1798]
- Size
- 12mo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
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- Marbled boards
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...