Description

FIRST EDITION.
Complete with etched frontispiece by Félix Bracquemond, Mask of Auguste Blanqui.

A dedicated, erudite and meticulous biography of the revolutionary leader, L'Enfermé endeavours to place Blanqui in a social perspective through the prisons, revolutions and utopias of the nineteenth century.

The work is dedicated to Alphonse Daudet - "Hommage à l'écrivain et à l'ami" - whom Geoffroy held in high esteem; he devoted a particularly glowing article to The Evangelist and Sappho in 1883. Both were among the eight founding members of the Académie Goncourt.

AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER TO ALPHONSE DAUDET - Stamp of his library on the first white endpaper:

To Alphonse Daudet
His admirer and friend
Gustave Geffroy

A copy bound in the period in unsigned grey half cloth, with the characteristic cover of Alphonse Daudet's library, generally established by Paul Vié.