Journées Lecture by Proust Marcel Pierre Lesieur Illustrated (1 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated with engravings by Pierre Lesieur. Quarto. 82, [2] pp. Text in French. Paper chemise with cover engraving and unbound bifoliums laid in, as issued. Fine in irregularly sunned clamshell case with short splits at the spine ends. Briefly Inscribed by the illustrator on a front blank. Published in an edition of 180 copies, this is copy XXV of 30 copies in roman numerals, issued "pour les collaboratuers et le dépôt legal." A beautifully produced edition of Proust's meditation on the delights of reading, first published (in slightly different form) as an introduction to his French translation of his early idol John Ruskin's collection of essays, *Sesame and Lilies*.