1968 Correspondance

Description

Decorative Binding, Leather Binding, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

A lovely set, Bibliothéque de la Pléiade edition. Comprising Stendhal's correspondence from 1800 to 1842. Stendhal, pen name for Marie-Henri Beyle, was a nineteenth century French writer, best known for his novels The Red and the Black and La Chartreuse de Parme. He was one of the pioneers for the form of realism. 
For the first decade of the century, he maintained a correspondence with his sister and best friend Pauline, included in these volumes. 

In the original, unclipped dustwrapper, issued without a spine to show the beautiful gilt to spine of volume.

Part of the Bibliothéque de la Pléiade, an editorial collection created in 1913. All the volumes in the series are bound in leather, colour coded according to the period, with gilt to spine and printed on bible paper.