MUSSET, Alfred de (1810-1857) Un spectacle dans un fauteuil ... - photo 1

MUSSET, Alfred de (1810-1857) Un spectacle dans un fauteuil ...

Lot 81
03.11.2020 14:30UTC +01:00
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€ 33 750
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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Lot 81 | MUSSET, Alfred de (1810-1857) Un spectacle dans un fauteuil ...
Estimate value
€ 12 000 – 18 000
MUSSET, Alfred de (1810-1857). Un spectacle dans un fauteuil. Paris : Eugène Renduel, 1833 - & - Un spectacle dans un fauteuil – Prose. Paris : Librairie de la Revue des Deux Mondes ; Londres : Bailliere, 1834.



Édition originale. Importante et rare publication de Musset, alors âgé de 23 ans, qui comprend certaines des oeuvres majeures de l'écrivain parmi lesquelles : À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles, Lorenzaccio, On ne badine pas avec l'amour, ou encore La Nuit vénitienne.

Carteret, qui cite cet exemplaire, indique que "Bulloz suggéra à Charpentier l'idée de publier les oeuvres de Musset dans sa collection in-12 (...) en sacrifiant pour la réussite de cette affaire un certain nombre d'exemplaires de son édition in-8 qui restaient dans la librairie de la Revue [des Deux Mondes]. Ceci explique la grande rareté de ces deux volumes en prose". (Carteret, II, p. 190).

Clouzot ajoute : "Ensemble fort rare, les deux derniers volumes ayant été partiellement détruits. Exceptionnel en reliures d'époque de qualité" (Clouzot, 215).



Élégant exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque de Honoré de Balzac et relié pour lui en demi-reliure rouge.

Non rogné et exempt de toute rousseur, l'exemplaire fut relié à l'époque pour Honoré de Balzac en demi-reliure rouge avec un décor alternant fleurons à froid et filets dorés. Les exemplaires provenant de la bibliothèque de Balzac sont nombreux à la Maison de Balzac mais assez rares en mains privées. Carteret, ll, 189-190 ; Escoffier 995 (cet exemplaire) ; Clouzot 215.



3 vols. in-8 (217 x 133 mm). Reliure de l'époque non signée : demi-cuir de Russie rouge, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés et fleurons à froid, plats de papier dominoté, lettres dorées. Provenance : Honoré de Balzac (2ème vente de Mme de Balzac — autrefois Hanska —, Château de Beauregard, 5 mars 1882 - plus de 2500 livres vendus en lots, sans description individuelle) ; Alphonse Parran (vente novembre 1921, n° 587) ; Maurice Escoffier (n° 995 de sa vente en 1934) ; Merle (catalogue de 1945, n° 300).

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