Colomba; La Vénus d’Ille; Les Ames du Purgatoire
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 193
Author
Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870
Title
Colomba; La Vénus d’Ille; Les Ames du Purgatoire
Statement of responsibility
Prosper Mérimée
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Calmann-Lévy, Éditeurs
Series
Not identified
Printer
Not identified
Date
1834
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, Éditeurs, 1834
Language
French
Tirage
Not identified
Collation
401 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
Approximately 18 cm; octavo
Dimensions
Approx. 18 cm
Paper type
Industrial wove paper
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Classical nineteenth-century French serif typography; old typographic composition
Binding type
Later half leather binding with corners
Colours
Brown and burgundy tones
Decoration
Grained cloth boards; gilt tools and titles on spine; decorated endpapers with embossed vegetal motif
Spine
Brown leather spine with gilt tools; rubbing and small superficial losses
Content description
Contains the works “Colomba”, “La Vénus d’Ille” and “Les Ames du Purgatoire”, representative tales of nineteenth-century French Romantic and fantastic fiction
Note 1
Nineteenth-century French edition of literary interest
Note 2
Includes table des matières at the end of the volume
Note 3
The date “1834” appears printed at the end of the text
Note 4
Preserves old typographic composition and original editorial structure
Note 5
Later rebound in half leather
Note 6
The spine bears the gilt initials “A.G.” corresponding to ownership marks of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Main subject
Nineteenth-century French literature
Subsubjects
French Romanticism; fantastic tale; historical fiction; decadent literature; French novella
Shelfmark
193
Condition
Good structural condition; abundant foxing and scattered oxidation throughout the interior; legible text; firm binding with moderate wear
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Old manuscript signature on half-title; no missing pages or evident restorations observed