LA POINTE (Savinien). A voice from below,... - Lot 103 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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LA POINTE (Savinien). A voice from below,... - Lot 103 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
LA POINTE (Savinien). A voice from below, poems by Savinien Lapointe, shoemaker shoemaker. Paris, at the printing office, s.d. (1844). Half lavaliere leatherette with corners, spine with nerves decorated and mosaic, cover and back preserved (Stroobants). First edition and first printing. Portrait of the author after Masson and 19 plates out of text engraved with etching after Elmerich. First collection of one of the most famous workers' poets, published under the patronage of Eugène Sue and Victor Hugo. Savinien Lapointe was a shoemaker in Paris when the July revolution occurred. July. He took up arms against the monarchy and was imprisoned in Sainte-Pélagie where he took advantage of his long his long imprisonment to educate himself. The preface by Eugène Sue is followed by letters addressed by the author to by the author to Béranger, Victor Hugo, Léon Gozlan, etc.
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