Correspondance de George Sand et d'Alfred de Musset : publiée intégralement et pour la première fois d'après les documents originaux.
George Sand (1804-1876)
Category
Books
Date
1904
Materials
Place of origin
Brussels
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215714
Summary
Bibliographic description
Nouvelle edition.. [2], XVI, 242, [2] p., plates : ill. ; 18cm. Loosely inserted label used as a bookmark and lettered "A merry Christmas" and signed "From Rose". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a horse and a man. Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles 7th Marquess of Londonderry]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's half blue morocco on blue cloth over boards, gilt embossed and lettered on spine. Gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
George Sand (1804-1876) Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) Félix Decori (1860 - 1915)