Author: LOTI (Pierre; pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud):
Title: Pecheur d'Islande Roman Quatre-Vinget-Cinquieme Edition. [and] Madame Chrysantheme.
Description: Paris Calmann Levy, Editeur..., 1890. 2 volumes. Large 12mo, 175 x 110 mms., pp. [iv], [3] - 319 [320 blank]; [iv], 304 [305 text, 306 colophon], attractively bound in art nouveau style quarter calf, marbled boards, red morroco strips and gilt rules on spine. A very good set. Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850 - 1923) published his first of many exotic novels, Asayade, in 1879. Pecheur d'Islande Roman, a novel of life among the Breton fishing men, in 1886, and Edmund Gosse described it as as "the most popular and finest of all his writings." Giacomo Puccini and his librettists Madame Chrysantheme also drew on Madame Chrysantheme (1887) for Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly (1904)

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