![PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922). À la recherche du temps perdu. Paris: Ch. Colin (volume I), l'Imprimerie ''La Semeuse'' (II), l'Imprimerie Louis Bellenand (III-IV), and F. Paillart (V-VIII) for Bernard Grasset (volume I) and Gallimard/Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (II-VIII), '1914' [but 1913]-1927.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CSK/2001_CSK_09261_0018_000(034903).jpg?w=1)
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PROUST, Marcel (1871-1922). À la recherche du temps perdu. Paris: Ch. Colin (volume I), l'Imprimerie ''La Semeuse'' (II), l'Imprimerie Louis Bellenand (III-IV), and F. Paillart (V-VIII) for Bernard Grasset (volume I) and Gallimard/Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (II-VIII), '1914' [but 1913]-1927.
13 volumes bound in 11, 8° (182 x 119mm (volume I) and 185 x 138mm (II-VIII)). Loosely-inserted errata bifolium in volume III. (Occasional minor marginal marking, volume III errata bifolium a little browned, lacking preliminary blanks in volumes II-IV; V, ii; VIII, i.) Contemporary, near-uniform crushed red morocco gilt by Desbled (volumes I-VII) and Pierson-H. Joseph, successors to Desbled (volume VIII), the spines gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt, gilt double-fillet borders on boards, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, original printed wrappers and spines bound in, original spine of volume II with pasted on overslip 'MAJORATION , TEMPORAIRE , CINQUANTE , POUR CENT', top edges gilt, others uncut (some light rubbing to extremities and light marking on boards, occasional light wear and skillful repairs to some wrappers or spines).
FIRST EDITIONS, DU CôTé DE CHEZ SWANN THE FIRST ISSUE. A FRESH SET OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LITERARY WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Volumes I-II on ordinary paper; volumes III-IV limited to 1,173 copies (these copies numbers 10 of 800 (III) and 943 of 800 (IV)); V, i-iii to 998 (432 of 890); VI, i-ii to 1,029 (617 of 917); VII, i-ii to 1,377 (939 of 1,249); VIII, i-ii to 1,374 (583 of 1,245), all on papier vélin [or vergé] pur fil lafuma-navarre.
Proust's search for a publisher for his chef-d'ouevre began in 1912, but met with little success (in part due to the commercial risks entailed in the expense of publishing such a substantial work); most famously, the novel was rejected by Gallimard's Nouvelle Revue Française imprint on the basis of a hasty and partial reading by André Gide. Eventually, Proust came to the conclusion that the only possibility of publication would be in an edition that he subsidised either in part or in whole. At the suggestion of his friend René Blum, he approached Bernard Grasset, who agreed to publish the work at the author's expense, and Du côté de chez Swann was issued on 8 November 1913. Gallimard swiftly realised their mistake, and became the publishers of the subsequent volumes of the work; although À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs was, according to the advertisement on the verso of the half-title of Du côté de chez Swann, 'pour paraitre en 1914', the Great War postponed the publication date of the second volume of the sequence until 1918. In 1919 Proust was awarded the Prix Goncourt, and the remaining volumes were issued in more lavish and elaborately sub-divided editions until the final volume was issued posthumously in 1927 (volume I had 17 copies on japon and Hollande, and volume II had 70 copies on Lafuma de Voiron, in addition to the ordinary paper copies).
The present copy of Du côté de chez Swann bears the following points: (i) the upper wrapper is dated 'MCMXIII'(the title MCMXIV); (ii) the verso of the half-title carries the announcement of the forthcoming publication of Le coté de Guermantes and Le temps retrouvé, 'Pour paraître en 1914'; (iii) the last two letters of the publisher's name 'GRASSET' on the title are mis-set, causing them to only partially print and a vertical line to appear between them; (iv) the colophon on p.[524] is dated 'le huit novembre mille neuf cent treize'. En français dans le texte 342. (11)
13 volumes bound in 11, 8° (182 x 119mm (volume I) and 185 x 138mm (II-VIII)). Loosely-inserted errata bifolium in volume III. (Occasional minor marginal marking, volume III errata bifolium a little browned, lacking preliminary blanks in volumes II-IV; V, ii; VIII, i.) Contemporary, near-uniform crushed red morocco gilt by Desbled (volumes I-VII) and Pierson-H. Joseph, successors to Desbled (volume VIII), the spines gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt, gilt double-fillet borders on boards, roll-tooled gilt turn-ins, original printed wrappers and spines bound in, original spine of volume II with pasted on overslip 'MAJORATION , TEMPORAIRE , CINQUANTE , POUR CENT', top edges gilt, others uncut (some light rubbing to extremities and light marking on boards, occasional light wear and skillful repairs to some wrappers or spines).
FIRST EDITIONS, DU CôTé DE CHEZ SWANN THE FIRST ISSUE. A FRESH SET OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LITERARY WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Volumes I-II on ordinary paper; volumes III-IV limited to 1,173 copies (these copies numbers 10 of 800 (III) and 943 of 800 (IV)); V, i-iii to 998 (432 of 890); VI, i-ii to 1,029 (617 of 917); VII, i-ii to 1,377 (939 of 1,249); VIII, i-ii to 1,374 (583 of 1,245), all on papier vélin [or vergé] pur fil lafuma-navarre.
Proust's search for a publisher for his chef-d'ouevre began in 1912, but met with little success (in part due to the commercial risks entailed in the expense of publishing such a substantial work); most famously, the novel was rejected by Gallimard's Nouvelle Revue Française imprint on the basis of a hasty and partial reading by André Gide. Eventually, Proust came to the conclusion that the only possibility of publication would be in an edition that he subsidised either in part or in whole. At the suggestion of his friend René Blum, he approached Bernard Grasset, who agreed to publish the work at the author's expense, and Du côté de chez Swann was issued on 8 November 1913. Gallimard swiftly realised their mistake, and became the publishers of the subsequent volumes of the work; although À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs was, according to the advertisement on the verso of the half-title of Du côté de chez Swann, 'pour paraitre en 1914', the Great War postponed the publication date of the second volume of the sequence until 1918. In 1919 Proust was awarded the Prix Goncourt, and the remaining volumes were issued in more lavish and elaborately sub-divided editions until the final volume was issued posthumously in 1927 (volume I had 17 copies on japon and Hollande, and volume II had 70 copies on Lafuma de Voiron, in addition to the ordinary paper copies).
The present copy of Du côté de chez Swann bears the following points: (i) the upper wrapper is dated 'MCMXIII'(the title MCMXIV); (ii) the verso of the half-title carries the announcement of the forthcoming publication of Le coté de Guermantes and Le temps retrouvé, 'Pour paraître en 1914'; (iii) the last two letters of the publisher's name 'GRASSET' on the title are mis-set, causing them to only partially print and a vertical line to appear between them; (iv) the colophon on p.[524] is dated 'le huit novembre mille neuf cent treize'. En français dans le texte 342. (11)
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