"Abbé Prevost "manon Lescaut""
Abbé Prevost “Manon Lescaut”Numerous illustrations by Maurice Leloir (including twelve etchings)
Text illustrated with 225 compositions
A large In-Folio volume (33 X 23 cm)
Paperback Navy blue half-calf cover with corners under folder and red cardboard slipcase marbled Ornate spine, gilded head
Edition: Launette - Paris - 1885
Limited edition of 3,000 copies on Grand Vélin Blanc
This one: N° 121
207 pages
Preface by Guy de Maupassant
Beautiful copy Casing in good condition (very light rubbing)…
Cover in good condition and interior in good condition with however some foxing.
Antoine-François Prevost (known as Abbé Prévost or sometimes Prévost d'Exil) was a historian, writer and churchman from the first half of the 18th century. After a novitiate with the Jesuits, he joined the army. He then pronounces his vows. After the publication of a first work stamped with a letter of cachet, he fled to London, where he learned English and the history of England. Then he travels to Holland where he publishes. He finally returned to France where he ended his life with the Benedictines. The title Manon Lescaut was considered scandalous, seized and sentenced to be burned.
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