Author: BOUFFLERS, STANISLAS-JEAN DE
Title: The Queen of Golconda and Other Tales
Description: London, Chapman Hall. 1926, Limited. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by Eric Sutton with an introduction by Hugh Walpole. Limited edition of 1000 copies for England and America of which this is number 48. Gilt title on light brown cloth boards with decorative paper sides. fore and lower edges uncut. Top edge gilt. Age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Uniform with XVIII Century French Romances edited by Vyvyan Holland. Book plate of Ralph Dickinson to front pastedown. Comprises Introduction; The Queen of Golconda; Ah! If Only; The Dervish. 'Aline, Reine de Golconde' was first published in Paris in 1761, 'Ah! si..' and 'La Derviche' were published in 1810, but belong, as does their author, to the 18th century. Bound and printed at the Curwen Press. B2E. Very Good TEG/No Jacket.

Keywords: French Literature, 18th Century French Fiction, Ralph Dickinson, Ratione Duce Vincas


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