Rolland, Romain

[Illustrations] Colas Breugnon/Bonhomme Vit Encore. Lithographies Originales de Théo Van Elsen

Paris: Jean Rousseau-Girard, [1946]. Colas Breugnon/Bonhomme Vit Encore. Lithographies Originales de Théo Van Elsen, Romain Rolland, Jean Rousseau-Girard, Editeur, Paris [1946] 11½ x 8½ x 1½ inches. 248pp., 74 lithographs.

Handsome printed on a fine watermarked paper by Arches. Chapters and page numbers and running chapter heads are printed red. The 74 lithographs in black ink. Bound in a French style-- unbound signatures (in fours) with the last numerated page being 248. There are another thirty pages of text & illustrations; and blanks. In printed paper wrapper covered by a glassine that amazingly enough mostly complete with chipping all around. Glassine is mildly soiled. Scattered moderate foxing to the covers. Very good condition.

Limited edition of 225 copies. Text in French. From the colophon: The typography and press work was done by Gaston Dorfinant and Pierre Bouchet on the latter's press between October 1943 and September 1946. Van Elsen illustrated a number of books in the 1940s and 1950s; this is the first appearances of these lithographs. Includes a facsimile of a letter to Rolland to the editor.

This novel by Romain Rolland (1868-1944) was first published in 1919 three years after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In it, a 17th cent. Burgundian peasant, Colas Breugnon, speaks of his life and times.

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