Author: Sainte-Pierre, Bernardin de
4to. (11 1/8" x 7 3/4") 1888. Limited Edition. Sainte-Pierre, Bernardin de. London: George Routledge and Sons. Contemporary full green morocco, gilt-ruled, herringbone covers with gilt floral devices in the corners, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, 2 maroon labels, 4 panels with extensive gilt, top edge gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Neat gift inscription to front free flyleaf. Original paper cover bound towards rear. This Edition is Limited to 800 Copies, 450 for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 350 for the United States of America. No. 114. Signed Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London.
From Wiki:
Paul et Virginie (sometimes known in English as Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre lived on the island for a time and based part of the novel on a shipwreck he witnessed there.
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