Author: FROMAGET, NICHOLAS
Title: The Prophet's Cousin
Description: London, Chapman Hall. 1926, Limited. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by Eric Sutton with an introduction by Charles Scott Moncrieff. Limited edition of 1000 copies for England and America of which this is number 49. First translation into English. Gilt title to spine on light brown cloth boards with decorative paper sides. Fore and lower edges uncut. Top edge gilt. Age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Uniform with XVIII Century French Romances edited by Vyvyan Holland. Book plate of Ralph Dickinson inside front cover. 'Le Cousin de Mahomet, ou la Folie Salutaire' was first published in Paris in 1742. So far as can be ascertained, this story has never been translated into English. Bound and Printed at the Curwen Press. B2E. Very Good TEG/No Jacket.

Keywords: French Literature, 18th Century French Fiction, Ralph Dickinson, Ratione Duce Vincas


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