[NEWSPAPER - SECOND EMPIRE]. Le Réveil. 1858. - Lot 54

[NEWSPAPER - SECOND EMPIRE]. Le Réveil. 1858. Reunion of the 52 issues published during 1858, the first year of publication of the polemist and bonapartist journal Le Réveil, with numerous texts signed by its main contributor, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. Paris, Aux bureaux du Réveil, 1858. In-folio, dark green half-chagrin, spine ribbed and underlined with gold fillet, crowned imperial eagle and gilt corner irons in a double gilt frame to the entrenerfs, gold initials. Contemporary binding. 2 ff. (title, table) and 620 pages printed in two columns, vignette engraved by Auguste Trichon after Gustave Doré at the head of each issue. Binding rubbed and scratched, tears at head, very rare foxing, more present in margins, margins a little browned. Reunion in one volume of the 52 issues of Le Réveil published in 1858, the first year of publication of this polemist and Bonapartist journal founded by Granier de Cassagnac and the Escudier brothers, which set out to "sanitize literature". 24 texts were written by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who was the Journal's main contributor before ending his collaboration in September 1858. Other contributors include Émile Béguin, Charles Brifault, Escudier, Fétis, Comte de Forbin, Granier de Chassagnac, de Laurières, Théophile Sylvestre, Louis Veron, Louis Veuillot and Villemain. Complete with 52 issues published from January 2, 1858 to December 25, 1858. A solid copy with a richly decorated spine and good interior freshness.