DELPIT, Albert. - Lot 36

DELPIT, Albert. Thérésine. Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1888. Large 12mo. Contemporary fawn sheepskin, slightly rubbed; ribbed spine (title label detached but preserved; spine slightly detached at the top; upper joint slightly worn). First and only early edition. One of 20 copies numbered on Japanese paper, the only ones printed on large-format paper. Copy belonging to Countess André Mniszech, Anne Charlotte Marrier de Lagatinerie, second wife of the dedicatee, André Georges Mniszech (1823–1905), a painter of Ukrainian origin, Polish nobleman, and great art collector. With its handwritten bookplate. A fine, attractively bound copy of this novel by Albert Delpit, a poet and novelist who served as secretary to Dumas the Elder (1849–1893).