Corinne ou L'Italie; Nouvelle Édition, revue avec soin et précédée d'observations par Mme Necker de Saussure et M. Sainte-Beuve

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[4], xv, [1], 504, [4] p.; 18 cm. Contemporary red leather with five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled spine title and deocration; blind-ruled borders on both boards. Marbled endpapers. At head of title: Madame de Staël. Former owner's name on front free endpapers verso. Publisher's advertisement on final 2 unpaginated pages. No date of publication; the publisher moved to 6 Rue des Saints-Pères in 1873. The year assigned in WorldCat, 1876, is consistent with this. The author, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein (1766-1817), was a French-Swiss writer and early champion of women's rights. Corinne (first published in 1807) was an early Romantic novel, based on de Stael's travels in Italy and Germany. In Good+ Condition: leather is rubbed; front joint is starting; minor loss at spine ends; closed 3-cm. from lower edge of p. 107; a few pencilled notations in first 150 pages; otherwise, clean and tight. N° de ref. del artículo 004545

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