GAUTIER (Théophile).

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GAUTIER (Théophile).
The Young France. Mocking novels. Paris, Renduel, 1833. In-8, long-grained lapis blue half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with mosaic boxes, untrimmed, cover (G. Mercier sr de son père 1922). First edition, decorated with a frontispiece engraved with etching by Célestin Nanteuil and printed on strong vellum. Gautier detaches himself here from the romantic movement by mocking the "Précieuses ridicules du Romantisme" and by making fun of some of his contemporaries, faithful of the Cenacle. In his preface (which begins with a "praise" of prefaces), with a caustic humor, Gautier makes his autobiography as an irresistible seducer: "Nobody will resist me [...] I will be so fatal and so vague, I will look like a fallen angel, a volcano, a dishevelled man, that there will be no way not to surrender. [...] Your wife herself, my dear reader, your mistress, if you have one or the other, or even both, will not be able to stop herself from saying, while joining her hands: "Poor young man! I'll be damned if, in six months, I'm not the most intolerable fatty there is from here to far. From the libraries of Victor Mercier (I, 1937, n° 102), Laurent Meeûs (1982, n° 1130) and Raoul Simonson (2013, n° 135). The whole volume heavily browned. Discharge of the frontispiece on the title. Without the 12 pages of the Renduel catalog reported by Carteret. The spine label alone has been preserved.
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