Inscribed to Théophile Gautier
Hésiode. Hymnes Orphiques. Théocrite. Bion - Moskhos - Tyrtee. Odes Anacréontiques. Traduction nouvelle.
Paris: Lemerre, 1869.
Price: $4,250.00
About the item
First edition. [iv], 367, [368, blank], [4] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Théophile Gautier. Half violet morocco and marbled boards by René Kieffer, with ticket inside flyleaf. Spine toned. Very good plus.
Item #302640
A volume of translations by the classicist poet Charles Leconte de Lisle, parnassian and friend of Baudelaire and Gautier. Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) was a long-time librarian at the Luxembourg, and was elected to Victor Hugo’s chair at the Academie française in 1887.
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), a prolific author, critic, and journalist, was rejected at the Academie française on three occasions in the 1860s. In 1868 he accepted a post as librarian to the Princess Mathilde Bonaparte.
Inscribed on the half title, “à Théophile Gautier, son admirateur sincère, Leconte de Lisle”.
