Redgauntlet, histoire du dix-huitième Siècle.

SCOTT, Sir Walter

Published by Paris: [Cosson for] Charles Gosselin, 1824

About this Item

4 volume set, 7 inches tall. Quarter calf with twin labels and gilt centre tools. Some fading and rubbing to the boards. First edition in French. Volume one contains an interesting Avant-propos de l Éditeur commencing: En publiant ce nouveau roman de l auteur de Waverley, qui ajoute 4 volumes à l édition complète in -12, et qui formera les tomes 38 et 39 de l in-8o. It explains the speed with which the translation had to be prepared in order to beat rival translations to the press. It also engages with criticisms of the recent translation of St. Ronan s Well and with the popular supposition that some of the new novels emanating from Scotland were not in fact by Scott at all but by Lockhart. The publisher sets the record straight, stating precisely which were Lockhart s (Valerius, Adam Blair, Reginald Dalton) and which were Scott s. This set is from the library, though without the bookplates, assembled at Voltaire's former home, the Chateau de Cirey ( Champagne) by Mme de Simiane ( 1761-1835 ), sometime lover of Lafayette and later, a correspondent of Fanny Burney. Diane-Adelaide de Simiane's early life was colourful and she came to Cirey in 1795 after a period of incarceration during the Terror. Previously she had been married to Charles-Francois de Simiane, who had served with Lafayette in America and who died in mysterious circumstances in 1787.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redgauntlet, histoire du dix-huitième Siècle.
• Publisher: Paris: [Cosson for] Charles Gosselin
• Publication Date: 1824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine