Adolphe. A Narrative Found Among the Papers of an Unknown Person. Translated by Paul Hookham. Introduction by Gustave Rudler.

153/500 COPIES, frontispiece portrait of the author, title-page printed in black and red, this with a few spots receding into prelims and recurrent at rear, pp. 183, crown 8vo, original parchment paper lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the latter browned with lean to spine, the borders of both boards more faintly browned, some light rubbing and wear to extremities, small faint red ink-mark toward foot of upper joint, t.e.g., edges untrimmed and a little browned, ownership inscription to flyleaf, good. Inscribed by the translator on the flyleaf: 'Dr Counsell, With the Translator's kind regards, iii.iii. mcmxxv'. Constant's fictionalised account of his affair with Madame de Staël had first been translated into English by Alexander Walker shortly after its first appearance in French, in 1816. This is the first translation for more than a century. Rudler, who provides an enthusiastic Introduction, had recently been appointed the first Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford.…