Marcel. Œuvres complètes.

by PROUST

£1,500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

PROUST, Marcel. Œuvres complètes. Paris: NRF . 1929–36. Eighteen vols, 8vo. Contemporary half morocco with red and gilt marbled sides, spines tooled in black with two red morocco lettering-pieces, top-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, green silk place-markers, original wrappers bound in ; minimal rubbing to extremities, spotting to edges of textblocks; variable light foxing (especially to first and final leaves), a few marks to upper edge of p. 137 of À l’ombre … III , small loss to upper inner corner of title of Le Côté … I ; overall a very good set. First collected edition of the works of Marcel Proust, the first to establish the canonical division of À la recherche du temps perdu , numbered and printed on Chiffon de Bruges. Published by Gaston Gallimard’s Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) in collaboration with Proust’s brother Robert, this edition, known as the édition à la gerbe , was the first attempt to gather the author’s works into a uniform collected set and to revise the text following the posthumous publication of Le Temps retrouvé , the final volume of À la recherche du temps perdu , in 1927. It also fixed the volume structure of the Recherche that has since become standard. Most significantly, the sections originally published as Sodome et Gomorrhe I and II were reorganised into a single volume divided into two parts, while the former third section became simply La Prisonnière . According to the publisher, this arrangement reflected a division that Proust himself had i

• Binding: Hardcover

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