Les Freres Zemganno

Auguste Brouet, Edmond de Goncourt

Paris

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Edite par F. Gregoire

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1921

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28.5cm x 19cm. [iv], viii, [2], iv, 236, [2] pages, 15 etchings, vignette half-title and title, black and white illustrations in the text, 4 original drawings. Fine signed full leather binding by Ganape, RD, blue morocco, ornate gilt decoration, all edges gilt, slipcase. Text is in French.

Goncourt’s Naturalist exploration of the evolution of French literature through the acrobatic artistry of two circus brothers, also echoing and exploring his own love and loss of his inseparable brother (and literary partner) who passed some years prior. Originally published in 1879, here for the first time with numerous illustrations by Auguste Brouet. The illustrations include 15 full page etchings, a half-page etching on the half-title, and a vignette on the title, all signed in the plate, together with a further 51 illustrations in the text. This copy extra illustrated with 4 original signed drawings by Brouet mounted at the beginning, and finely bound in a signed full leather binding by Ganape, RD, dated 1925, and with the bookplates of Yvan Lamberty and B. Le Dosseur.

Some shelf wear to slipcase, mostly top and bottom edge. The slightest of marks to the top raised band on the spine. A few very minor soil marks to interior. Near Fine Condition.