LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. - Lot 18

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LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. - Lot 18
LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. [Jocelyn]. Exceptional set around Jocelyn, the Romantic poet's major title, including an edition from the year of the original, with dispatch, and the verbatim manuscript of Jocelyn. -Jocelin" (spelling differs from title). Remarkable manuscript of the entire text, without repentance, lines drawn in pencil and then erased, in fine brown ink. In in-4 format. Bound in period gray percaline, embossed boards (wear to binding, inner spine sometimes a little loose or partially weakened, some foxing). Given as being in Lamartine's own hand. -Jocelyn. Episode. Journal trouvé chez un curé de village. Paris, Furne, Ch. Gosselin, 1836. 2 volumes in-8. Signed red morocco, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt lace to front covers, vat paper endpapers, guilloche headpieces, gilt edges (a few scattered freckles). One of the first editions of this great novel-poem with 9,000 verses. In elegant jansenist morocco signed Chambolle-Duru. Autograph tribute to "Monsieur [Villemun]" by Lamartine on the title page, dated March 1836.
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