Accession number
PML 138155-56
Creator
Du Camp, Maxime, 1822-1894.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Corrected proofs of Maxime Du Camp's Souvenirs littéraires in preparation for the 1882-1883 edition published by Hachette et Cie, the work having previously appeared in the Revue des deux-mondes in 1879-1882.
Proofs consisting of pages of text from the Revue des deux-mondes, printed on blue paper and mounted onto leaves bound on stubs in two albums; the printed text extensively corrected and annotated in the hand of the author, with 20 autograph manuscript leaves providing chapter summaries by Du Camp; leaves 204-214 of v. 1 provided in manuscript in the hand of a secretary, with corrections by Du Camp; and 23 leaves of manuscript "justifications", 2 of them in the hand of the author, at the end of v. 2.
Album leaves numbered in manuscript: v. 1 (293 leaves); v. 2 (10, 272 leaves and 23 unnumbered leaves).
Proofs consisting of pages of text from the Revue des deux-mondes, printed on blue paper and mounted onto leaves bound on stubs in two albums; the printed text extensively corrected and annotated in the hand of the author, with 20 autograph manuscript leaves providing chapter summaries by Du Camp; leaves 204-214 of v. 1 provided in manuscript in the hand of a secretary, with corrections by Du Camp; and 23 leaves of manuscript "justifications", 2 of them in the hand of the author, at the end of v. 2.
Album leaves numbered in manuscript: v. 1 (293 leaves); v. 2 (10, 272 leaves and 23 unnumbered leaves).
Description
2 items (293; 10, 272, 23 leaves) ; 27 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Bookseller's description laid in to v. 1.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
3/4 morocco.
Classification
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