Accession number
Heineman 335
Creator
France, Anatole, 1844-1924.
Published
[1908]
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
Proofs corrected and signed by the author, with about 70 pages of autograph manuscript additions bound in.
Description
396 leaves ; 33 cm
Provenance
Eugene Richtenberger (1856-1920), the front doublure is a manuscript inscription by Petrus Uselding (b. 1849) on the provenance of the proofs: "The trials, unfortunately incomplete, of the life of Joan of Arc by the good master Anatole France, enriched with numerous additions to the original manuscript, by the hand of the author, were miraculously saved from destruction by the damsel Emma Laprevotte [i.e. Anatole's wife], aptly nicknamed 'Perfection'. They were given by the master to Eugene Richtenberger, financier of the 12th district of the city of Paris, who entrusted Carayon, the skilled worker, with the care of enclosing this precious gem in a suitable setting. Petrus Uselding delineavit." Dannie and Hettie Heineman.
Binding
Full brown calf by Carayon, with two cuttings of illuminated letters from a Bolognese manuscript (late 13th/early 14th-century?) set into each cover, armorial of Joan of Arc tooled on covers and on endleaves.
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