Paroles d’un Croyant

Réf. 43916

€ 8000.00

LAMENNAIS (F.) illustrated by Carlos SCHWABE

Paris - imprimé pour Charles Meunier - 1908

Bookbinder : Charles MEUNIER
Format : Fort in-4.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Bound.
Collation : 191 pp.

Leather-edged slipcase and under shirt with garnet morocco spine and edges. Bound in garnet morocco leather. Spine with 4 double nerves with gold floret and mosaic. The bevelled dishes are decorated with two large compositions of incised and dyed leather, that of the upper dish, representing a cross around which a snake is wrapped, with, above it, the Holy Spirit, in an ornamentation of thistles on a sieve spineground. Dark red morocco lining with large decoration with a frame of gilded fillets and Latin crosses, in green calf cold laid on glories of gilded threads, alternating with drawn brown morocco crosses cold set, borders of cold arabesques and platinum Latin crosses. Garnet memory guards. All edges gilt. Original paper covers and spine bound in. Binding signed Charles MEUNIER.

Very beautiful illustrated edition of 1 portrait of Lamennais and about 90 compositions by Carlos SCHWABE, including 45 original etchings, including 42 large half-page headings, each accompanied by an ornate letter, and 42 lamp ends. Text in a thorny frame.

LIMITED EDITED to 166 numbered copies, this one bearing the number 3 printed for Mr. Pierre Meunier.

Unique copy printed on closing Holland paper :

- A double suite apart from etchings, on China (without the letter decorated for the headers) and on white vellum

- The print on vellum paper of 42 floral frames designed by Carlos Schwabe and not used by the publisher ; on the spine of these frames is the series of cul-de-lampe in separate print.

This copy is also enriched by the self-signed MANUSCRIT with an important article by Lamennais, noting in a very strong way the allegations contained in an article in the Moniteur and whose official inspiration is now manifest ; this article seems to have been published by Lamennais in his journal L'Avenir, which, founded on¹ September 1830, was suspended on 15 November 1831. In this article, Lamennais calls for the freedom of the Catholic religion from administrative supervision, the free exercise of worship both inside and outside the churches and the application of the 1830 charter. This article is 6 pages in-4.

From the Ch. Freund-Deschamps library with ex-libris.

Rich and artistic binding lined with Ch. Meunier.