BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules). Deux facettes de Bague. Subtitle - Lot 28

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules). Deux facettes de Bague. Subtitled: "On ne Taille pas que des diamants". 1 p. (310 × 200 mm), horizontal fold, black, green, red and mauve ink, pencil, 3 places consolidated with adhesive paper on verso side. MANUSCRIPTED DRAFT FOR THE NEWSLETTER: "DEUX ANECDOTES D'APRÈS SOUPER", published in 1886 in "Le Nouveau Docameron", a collective work published by Dentu. This very short text, entitled here "Deux facettes de Bague" but later published as "Deux anecdotes d'après-souper", is divided into IV numbered parts, of which the folio presented here is a fragment of Part I, by far the longest. Most probably a first draft manuscript, half written in black ink and the other half in pencil, with numerous indentations and erasures. The full text of the story can be found here: http://www.miscellanees.com/b/barbey01.htm