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GONCOURT, Edmond de (1822-96). La Fille Élisa, Paris: G. Charpentier, 1877, 18°, FIRST EDITION, number 17 of 75 copies on papier de Hollande, etched portrait after Léopold Flameng in three states, extra illustrated with three other portraits, one after Bracquemond in 2 states, and 5 plates (some heavy spotting of plates, and also of text), bound with -- [NEUVILLE, Lemercier de] La Fille Élisa. Scene d' Atelier en un acte par une auteur bien connu, Rome: au Temple de Vénus [Paris: Impr. Huginis], [n.d.], 8°, FIRST EDITION, 2 etched plates, contemporary green levant half morocco by CHARLES MEUNIER, spine richly-tooled in gilt with emblems of a skull, a hare and a cupid and twining flowers in silver or with rose heads of red morocco onlays with gilt outlines (spine a little faded, upper cover slightly scuffed), original wrappers to both works bound in, uncut, t.e.g. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front blank. [Talvart & Place VII, p. 219: 45A]
The second work is one of two contemporary parodies of De Goncourt's gloomy history of a heroine, Elisa, who becomes a prostitute and felon. She falls in love with a soldier but eventually murders him in a fit of hysterical rage, and declines into eventual imbecility after receiving a life sentence.
The second work is one of two contemporary parodies of De Goncourt's gloomy history of a heroine, Elisa, who becomes a prostitute and felon. She falls in love with a soldier but eventually murders him in a fit of hysterical rage, and declines into eventual imbecility after receiving a life sentence.