Contes des bords du Rhin

Erckmann-Chatrian

Contes des bords du Rhin

Par Erckmann-Chatrian

Paris

J. Hetzel, libraire-éditeur

Imprimerie générale de Ch. Lahure, rue de Fleurus, 9, Paris

Ca. 1863

Paris : J. Hetzel, libraire-éditeur, 18, rue Jacob

French

Third edition

283 p., [1] h.

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18º

17,5 × 12 cm

Wove paper

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French serif typography; letterpress printing; uniform inking and good legibility

Widespread foxing, denser on the title page and in the margins of the photographed leaves

Contemporary half leather binding with corners

Leather spine and corners; marbled paper boards; decorated endpapers

Brown and burgundy

Gilt tools in the spine compartments: repeated central fleuron and gilt rules on the raised bands

Spine with pronounced raised bands, decorated compartments and gilt titles

Polychrome marbled paper

Wear to headcaps and corners; rubbing to edges and to the paper of the boards. Text block sound and firmly attached to the covers

Collection of nine tales set in Alsace and on the left bank of the Rhine: Myrtille, Mon illustre ami Selsam, La Pêche miraculeuse, Le Trésor du vieux seigneur, La Reine des abeilles, Le Talion, Le Blanc et le Noir, La Voleuse d'enfants and Le Cabaliste Hans Weinland. They combine Alsatian rural genre writing with the fantastic and the legendary. The volume opens with a note by the authors, dated Paris, 11 July 1863, in which Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian declare for the first time that the signature stands for two writers.

Copy undated on the title page; dated ca. 1863 from the authors' note of 11 July 1863 and from the Ch. Lahure printer's imprint, which predates 1870. The statement «troisième édition» numbers commercial impressions and does not date the copy: the 283-page setting remained in use until at least a 27th edition.

Nineteenth-century French literature

Fantastic tales; Alsatian genre writing; regionalist literature

Erckmann-Chatrian; Alsace; Rhine; fantastic tale; Hetzel; nineteenth century

0245

Good; text block firm and complete; crisp printing; widespread foxing to the paper; wear to headcaps, corners and edges

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

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