[La Fayette, Marie Madeleine de]. La princesse de Monpensier.

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1681.

Large 12mo. (8), 146 pp. Contemporary brown calf, traces of gilt leading edges.

 750.00

Later edition of the first published work of Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette (1634-93), first published in 1662: not only one of the first modern novels in any language, but also both the prototype and a masterpiece of the historical novel.

Binding professionally restored. An old deleted ink ownership to title-page. From the library of the French statesman and historian Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) with his bookplate "Libro Liber" and initials "GH" to front pastedown.

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OCLC 21105109.

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