ATALA, François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, Vignettes de Pierre Charbonnier, 1925, 1/60 Copies

Description

Rene de Chateaubriand

Atala

Vignettes gravees sur bois de Pierre Charbonnier

 

Published by Henry Jonquieres, Paris, 1925

Gilt decorated cloth covers with hand-colored vignette, all edges gilt, 12mo, 163 pp.

One of 60 copies on Velin du Marais  paper (numbered 11-60 / 61-75 hors commerce)

Of a total edition of 555; this is no. 59

8vo

Vignettes engraved on wood by Pierre Charbonnier.

 

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 – 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who had a notable influence on French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition.