STENDHAL. Suora Scolastica. A story that moved all Naples in - Lot 365

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STENDHAL. Suora Scolastica. A story that moved all Naples in - Lot 365
STENDHAL. Suora Scolastica. A story that moved all Naples in 1740. Paris, André Coq , 1921. Large in-12, paperback. XXIII- 130 pages, 4 vignettes in black, including the frontispiece. Spine insolate as usual, a few light brown spots. First edition of Stendhal's last text, left unfinished at his death in 1842. The edition was compiled by Henry Debraye (1878-1948), archivist and later General Secretary of Grenoble, and a specialist in Stendhal's work. It is illustrated with four vignettes "engraved on wood in the Romantic manner" by Hoffman, based on drawings by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950). An unnumbered copy on van Gelder romantic tinted vellum, with an autograph signed letter from the publisher to the writer Henry Frichet. Rare posthumous first edition.
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