Victor, ou l'enfant de la foret

DUCRAY-DUMINEL, M. [Francois-Guillaume]

Verlag: Chez le Prieur, Libraire [1798], A Paris, 1798

Four volumes. 242, [2]; 257, [1]; 275, [1]; 325pp, [1]. With half-title and engraved frontispiece to each volume. Finely bound in contemporary red half-morocco over marbled boards, gilt. Slightly rubbed to spines, bumping to corners. Marbled endpapers. Early ink inscription of E. Matheiu to head of each title, occasional marginal loss to text blocks. A handsome copy of the third edition of this popular romance of the French republic, by Francois Guillaume Ducray-Duminil (1761-1819), French novelist and song-writer whose novels were deemed 'stupid romances' by Hugo in Les Miserables. First published in 1796, it follow's the exploits of Victor, abandoned as a child in a seventeenth-century Bohemian forest, discovered and raised by a nobleman, only to rediscover his lineage in a chance encounter in that same forest. All early editions now appear remarkably scarce Size: 12mo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ11086

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Victor, ou l'enfant de la foret
Verlag: Chez le Prieur, Libraire [1798], A Paris
Erscheinungsdatum: 1798
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: Third edition.