La Famille Elliot, ou l Ancienne Inclination; Traduction libre de l Anglais d un Roman Posthume de Miss Jane Austen, auteur de Raison et Sensibilité, d Emma, etc. Par Mme. la Baronne Isabelle de Montolieu. Nouvelle Edition, ornée de figures.

[AUSTEN, JANE].

Published by Paris: Arthus Bertrand, Libraire, Editeur du Voyage Autour du Monde, par le Cap. Duperrey, Rue Hautefeuille, no. 23, 1828.

2 vols., large 12mo. Engraved frontispiece in each volume by Delvaux after Charles-Abraham Chasselat, with the series half-title in each volume: "Oeuvres de Mme. La Baronne Isabelle de Montolieu. Tome XV [-XVI]." Some browning to the edges of the first few leaves in each volume, but an attractive copy in antique-style rose half morocco over pink boards, spines gilt-ruled and lettered. Second edition in French, not so stated, in the same format as the first edition of 1821, and retaining the first illustrations ever to appear of any Jane Austen novel. David Gilson gives an excellent account of the translation, noting among other things that it incorporates "a moderately faithful rendering of Henry Austen s `Biographical notice. " For some reason Madame de Montolieu changed the heroine s name from Anne to Alice, which is a little jarring for any Janeite looking at the frontispiece to Vol. II, showing Captain Wentworth placing his fateful letter: "Il s approcha de la table, montra la lettre à Alice, et sortit sans dire un mot." The frontispiece to the first volume shows Captain Wentworth lifting the child Walter Musgrove off Anne/Alice - both frontispiece subjects are impressively well-chosen. These French translations are notoriously rare, though perhaps, as David Gilson writes, "less desperately rare than they appeared to be [to Sir Geoffrey Keynes] in 1929." This edition is Gilson, Jane Austen, C12; he illustrates the frontispiece to Vol. I from his own copy (he did not have Vol. II). Gilson and OCLC locate copies of both the 1821 and the present edition in a few Continental libraries, also Cambridge, Illinois, and Yale for the 1821 edition, and for this 1828 one only Gilson s own Vol. I and Geoffrey Keynes s complete copy. Seller Inventory # 13662

Bibliographic Details

Title: La Famille Elliot, ou l Ancienne Inclination...
Publisher: Paris: Arthus Bertrand, Libraire, Editeur du Voyage Autour du Monde, par le Cap. Duperrey, Rue Hautefeuille, no. 23, 1828.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition