Jules RENARD.

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Jules RENARD.
The Dehorner. No place or date [ca. 1892]. Autograph manuscript in-4 of 20 and 216 ff. mounted on tabs, ebony morocco, smooth spine and boards decorated with a semis of gilt lozenges, title and name of the author in gilt letters in the centre of the boards, framed with gilt lozenges on the wide inner border, lining and endpapers of mordoré silk decorated with a grid of gilt threads, modern box (Inv Pierre Legrain, René Kieffer). Superb autograph manuscript used for printing: it contains many unpublished passages, later deleted on proofs, and important variants. In direct style in the printed version, the story is here again written in indirect style. Similarly, the names of some characters will be changed, the epigraphs to the chapters deleted, as well as the chapter La Mèche de cheveux or a quotation from Sterne in the chapter En voyage. The manuscript also offers two versions of the chapter Le Navet. At the top, there are twenty bound sheets of various sizes with the title: Poètes et bourgeois. Notes diverses. This collection of drafts and preparatory states, bearing the title L'Écor nifleur, is of great interest for the study of the genesis of the text. Published thanks to Marcel Schwob, this novel is Jules Renard's first masterpiece. The manuscript is preserved in a magnificent binding designed by Pierre Legrain for René Kieffer, similar to those designed for Jacques Doucet in the years 1919-1923. It was probably executed for Jules Renard himself, the manuscript being described in the sale of his library as covered with an "electric binding"... The manuscript escaped the editors of the Oeuvres de Jules Renard in the Pléiade, published in 1970. From the collections of Jules Renard (no. 264).- Georges Emmanuel Lang (I, 1930, no. 294).- Du Bourg de Bozas, with bookplate (I, 1990, no. 224).- Jean-Claude Delaunay (2005, no. 335), with bookplate.
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