LANGLOIS, Eustache-Hyacinthe. Essai sur les énervés de Jumiè - Lot 73

LANGLOIS, Eustache-Hyacinthe. Essai sur les énervés de Jumièges et sur quelques décorations singulières des églises de cette abbaye. Published in Rouen by Edouard frère in 1838. In octavo / In-8 format. Midnight blue half-basane. Smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets. Contemporary binding. XI-239 pages, a frontispiece engraving of the tomb of the Enervés de Jumiège and four other plates outside the text. Slight rubbing to spine and scattered light foxing. First edition of this study of the decorations that made up the inner walls of the Norman abbey founded by Saint Philibert a few leagues from Rouen. One of 400 copies printed on unglued Grand-carré des Vosges. The book presents two local Norman legends: those of the enervés of Jumiège, or the sons of Clovis II and Saint-Bathilde, who were taken in by the abbey, and that of the Green Wolf. Contains a handwritten history of this study. In good condition.