Author: DE STAËL, MADAME (ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAëL-HOLSTEIN)
Title: Corinne, Ou L'Italie (in French Language)
Description: Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, [c.1870s-1940s]. Hardcover. A romantic novel, in the French language, by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (1766–1817), writing in her Madame de Staël identity. First published in 1807, the story takes the form of a tour through Italy. The influential author was a witness to events of the French Revolution and later opposed Napoleon, causing her to seek exile in Germany and elsewhere. --- An attractive copy in red cloth-covered boards backed in red leather, with decorations in blind to covers, titling and decorations in gilt in six spine compartments and attractive brown/violet/red/yellow marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with sewn-in green cloth ribbon bookmark. Undated, but possibly published c.1870s-1940s. --- With a little darkening to spine ends and minor age-toning to leaves, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound, well-preserved copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xv, 505 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Foreign Language
Title: Corinne, Ou L'Italie (in French Language)
Description: Paris: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, [c.1870s-1940s]. Hardcover. A romantic novel, in the French language, by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (1766–1817), writing in her Madame de Staël identity. First published in 1807, the story takes the form of a tour through Italy. The influential author was a witness to events of the French Revolution and later opposed Napoleon, causing her to seek exile in Germany and elsewhere. --- An attractive copy in red cloth-covered boards backed in red leather, with decorations in blind to covers, titling and decorations in gilt in six spine compartments and attractive brown/violet/red/yellow marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with sewn-in green cloth ribbon bookmark. Undated, but possibly published c.1870s-1940s. --- With a little darkening to spine ends and minor age-toning to leaves, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound, well-preserved copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xv, 505 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Foreign Language
Price: US$ 36.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 84458
- Book number: 84458