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François-René de Chateaubriand.
An Essay on English Literature and Reflections on the Genius of Men, Times and Revolutions.
Paris, Charles Gosselin & Co. and Furne, 1836.
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An Essay on English Literature and Reflections on the Genius of Men, Times and Revolutions.
Paris, Charles Gosselin & Co. and Furne, 1836.
2 volumes in-8, (2) folios, 370 pp. and (2) folios, 404 pp. Red long-grain half-maroquin with corners, decorated faux-ribbed spine, decorated panels, author, title and volume number gilded, gilded fillet on the covers, untrimmed with gilded top, cover and spine preserved [Canape] (caps, corners and edges very slightly rubbed, copy possibly washed, gilder’s error on the spine).
Bookplate by J. Le Roy. Escoffier, The Romantic Movement, 1186 "What is crucial, at this point in 1836, is Chateaubriand’s assessment of the Romantic movement – lost in Volume II, p. 253."
Carteret, Romantic and Modern, I, 163.
First edition.
A beautifully bound copy by Canape, complete with covers printed on yellow paper.
An ambitious essay, emblematic of Chateaubriand’s desire to combine literature and politics, a blend of visionary reflections on the future of the world and of art: “I concern myself with everything, the present, the past, the future; I go here and there; when I encounter the Middle Ages, I speak of them; when I come up against the Reformation, I dwell upon it; when I find the English Revolution, it brings our own to mind, and I cite its men and events.”
Chateaubriand included in it previously unpublished fragments of the Mémoires d'outre tombe, which were subsequently amended (Carteret).
A fine copy with an autographed ex dono by the author:
Presented by the author to Monsieur Chardel, / Chateaubriand.
Casimir Chardel (1777–1847) of Rennes served as a deputy until 1834. A magistrate under the Empire, he welcomed the return of the Bourbons. "Having shown, in the final years of Charles X’s reign, ‘constitutional’ and liberal leanings, he was chosen by the electors of the 6th arrondissement of Paris to represent them in the Chamber of Deputies" (Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, II, 1890, 50–51). Once elected, he took part in the July Days of 1830, chairing an insurrectionary committee.
A copy belonging to the former minister Philippe de Villepin, featuring his colour bookplate created by the Chinese artist Zao-Wou-Ki.