Jules BARBEY d’AUREVILLY (1808 – 1889)

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Jules BARBEY d’AUREVILLY (1808 – 1889)
Les Misérables by Mr Victor Hugo. Paris, chez tous les libraires, 1862. In-12 of (3) ff, V, 95 pp, red half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed with title and date in gilt letters, untrimmed, gilt head, cover preserved (Devauchelle). First edition, rare. Collection of the five articles dedicated by Barbey to Les Misérables that Victor Hugo had just published, critical and polemical articles published in Le Pays from April to July 1862, to which is added a last paper entitled Les Mameloucks de M. Hugo, where he attacks all those who had defended the exile. Attached to the copy, mounted at the top, an autograph letter signed by Louise Read to Lucien Descaves, dated November 18, 1912, two and a half pages in-8: "I have just reread your magnificent preface of the Theatre and I will give a Hugo, that is to say I will gather all that Barbey d'Aurevilly wrote about him, including the famous articles on Les Misérables. Joint: Victor Hugo. Paris, Crès, 1922. In-12 of XII, 285 pp, (1) f., brown half-chagrin with corners, spine with title and date in gilt letters, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept (Honnelaître). Partly first edition. One of fifty numbered copies on pur fil (n° 13), the only large paper. Published by Louise Read, the collection gathers "all that Barbey d'Aurevilly has written" on Hugo's work (Letter from L. Read to Lucien Descaves, see above). "A collection of capital interest" (Cahiers Aurevilliens, December 1936, p.70).
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