Description
FIRST EDITION.
Appeared in serial form in La Presse from January 1856, Évenore and Leucippe devait faire partie d'une série consacrée aux amants illustres qu'Agricol Perdiguier avait commandée à George Sand. L'ouvrage prit un titre plus accrocheur à partir de 1861 : The Love of the Golden Age.
Separate text in the author's work which qualifies it as Antediluvian legend in the 1861 preface,"Evenore and Leucippe is neither a story, nor a novel, nor a poem per se."
Copy from the famous collection of the American bibliophile Robert Hoe (1839-1909), a wealthy manufacturer of printing presses, each volume of which bears a luxurious leather bookplates.
Beautiful copy, well bound by Dodè in full calf and whose bright yellow covers are well preserved.
Reliures de la fin du XIXème siècle signée Dodè, plein veau citron, dos lisses richement ornés d’encadrements, roulettes et fleurons, encadrement sur les plats, couvertures et dos conservés, étui bordé.
