MUSSET (de) Alfred. La Confession d'un enfant du siècle. Paris, Félix Bonnaire,1836.
In-8 (216 x 144 mm), two volumes in one : [4] ff, 321 pp-[2] ff -330 pp, [3] ff. Tan half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated with roulette at head and tail of spine, author, title and tomaison in gilt.
First edition. A ‘work of great rarity’ (Carteret), for the author's only novel, a landmark tale of Romanticism that was largely inspired by the relationship between Musset and Sand. A pleasant copy, with wide margins, in a sober modern binding in the taste of the period.
Some scattered foxing.
Modern ex-dono on the first false-title (MATEJAR), and unidentified ex-dono on the two title pages.
