180.00€
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.
