BECQUE, Henry

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BECQUE, Henry
Les Corbeaux. Play in four acts. Paris, Tresse, 1882. Large in-8 (230 x 153 mm) of 4 ff. (of which the first is blank), 152 pp. Brown half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine with yellow cover (M[arie] Brisson rel.). Talvart-Place, I, 337:6. First edition. "The play was soon [after its first presentation on September 14, 1882] considered one of those masterpieces that remain because of the strength, truth and poetry that emerge from it" (Laffont-Bompiani). Soberly bound by Marie Brisson, "adopted daughter of Carayon and trained at his school. She continued her famous cartooning. She ceased her activity a few years after the first world war. She made her own cover and endpapers inspired by the look of the book" (Fléty). Good copy, binding slightly rubbed.
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