Etudes Litteraires sur le dix-neuvieme siecle 1887 Faguet - Beatrice Chamberlain

Title: Etudes Litteraires sur le dix-neuvieme siecle

Author: Emile Faguet

Description: Half green calf with pseudo-marbled paper boards; ornate gilt tooled spine with a burgundy title block; binding by E. Worrall. Light wear to extremities. Endpapers of the same pseudo-marbled paper. Bookplate of Beatrice Mary Chamberlain on front-paste down, as is the bookbinders label. Heavy foxing to leaves. pp. xii, 453, [5]. 17.3 x 11 cm.

Contents: Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Theophile Gautier, Prosper Merimee, Michelet, George Sand, Balzac.

Bookplate of Beatrice Mary Chamberlain. [Presumed to be the British educationalist, political organizer, and half-sister of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who was born in 1862. She was educated, in part, at a private girls school in Fontainebleau. Fluent in French, she also helped organize the French Wounded Emergency Fund at the start of World War I. This volume was bound by E. Worrall, a notable bookbinder of Birmingham, the city for which Beatrice's father served as mayor.]

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: H. Lecene et H. Oudin, Editeurs
Place: Paris
Year: 1887

Language: French

Keywords: Beatrice Mary Chamberlain, Beatrice Chamberlain, E. Worrall