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Synopsis

Of this edition printed on japanese vellum paper only one thousand complete copies are printed for sale. no (chefs d'oeuvre du roman contemporain realists).

Item Description

8vo. 9 x 6 inches. [4] + 207 pp. Title page and half title, in red and black, other section titles in red. Bound in watered silk effect blue cloth,gilt, decorated in gilt and black. Top edge gilt, others rough cut. A little wear to edges, including head and tail of spine, which is sunned. Some foxing of the tissue guards, but otherwise a very good clean copy. Armourial bookplate of Charle N. Lawrence. Illustrated by Louis Muller and Charles Lucien Leandre (1862-1934) 10 plates (2 of which are duplicated), by Louis Muller, protected by captioned tissue guards and by 15 additional plates, also with tissue guards. Unnumbered limited edition of the English version of a French realist novel, set in Paris in the period 1870-80, following the Siege and Commune. By author and playwright, Ludovic Halevy (1834-1908) it was originally published as La Famille Cardinal (1893) and devotes individual chapters to each member of this middle class family. The Walpole Press edition was translated by George Burnham Ives (1856-1930). This copy was formerly owned by Charles Napier Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate (1855-1927), businessman and railway executive (LNWR, LMS and Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway).