CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René de. Mémoires d'outre-tombe. - Lot 158

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René de. Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Complete 6-volume set of one of the most important publications in the history of French literature. Paris, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger, 1860. 6 volumes in-8, half-brown basane, spine ribbed with long-grained red morocco title-pieces. 512 pages ; 582 pages ; 510 pages ; 544 pages ; 543 pages ; 554 pages. Spines faded, rubbed and spotted, spidering to spine and boards, foxing, engravings missing. Complete edition of this masterpiece of French literature. Based on the text of the original edition, published some ten years before our own, it is not divided into "livres", as modern editions will be. Striked wet stamp of the Petit Séminaire de Gourdon on the endpapers. [Vicaire, II, 292]. A good set.