Le Blocus

Erckmann-Chatrian

Le Blocus

Par Erckmann-Chatrian

Paris

J. Hetzel et Cie, Éditeurs

Ca. 1867

Paris : J. Hetzel et Cie, Éditeurs, 18, rue Jacob

French

Thirteenth edition

Le Blocus : épisode de la fin de l'Empire

335 p.

Typographic vignette on title page

Does not contain

12º

17,5 × 12 cm

Wove paper

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

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

Contemporary half leather binding with corners

Leather and marbled paper

Garnet and polychrome marbled paper

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

Spine with five raised bands, decorated compartments and title gilt directly on the leather

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

An account of the siege of Phalsbourg in 1814, narrated in the first person by Moïse, an iron merchant from the town's Jewish quarter, who recounts the blockade of the fortress during the French campaign to a younger listener. The volume also contains a second work not announced on the title page: Le Capitaine Rochart, a military tale, on pages 317 to 335. Le Blocus ends on page 315. Both titles belong to the Romans nationaux, the series in which Erckmann and Chatrian told the story of the Revolution and the Empire from the viewpoint of the ordinary people of Alsace and Lorraine.

Copy undated on the title page. It is dated ca. 1867 from the first Hetzel edition, whose pagination of 335 pp. it retains. The statement «treizième édition» numbers commercial printings and does not allow dating. The volume contains two works, although the title page announces only the first.

Nineteenth-century French literature

Historical novel; Napoleonic Wars; Alsatian regionalist literature

Erckmann-Chatrian; Phalsbourg; Alsace; First Empire; Romans nationaux; Hetzel; 19th century

0246

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

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

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