Lot 195
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
£540
Description
Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme. Paris: Delangle frères, 1829, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title "Madame Émile Deschamps, hommage respectueux, Ste-Beuve", 12mo, contents leaf bound after the title-page, contemporary half calf, flat spine decorated in gilt to a romantique design, signed by Thompson
Footnote
Note: The book was published anonymously by Sainte-Beuve, who presented it as the posthumous work of a young poet friend, Joseph Delorme.