Maurice Maindron / Guy Arnoux - St-Cendre - 1930

Fascinating numbered edition on Rives and illustrated with this historical adventure novel that plunges the reader into France of the Ancien Régime, skillfully blending historical reconstruction, a romańesque plot, social observation, and reflection on the values of honor, courage, and fidelity -

Beautiful full cherry morocco binding by Tévy -

The work centers on the character Saint-Cendre, a gentleman whose nobility of character, skill, bravery, and sense of duty lead him into a succession of trials where personal ambitions, political rivalries, and human passions constantly intersect -

As the tale unfolds, the hero evolves in a world dominated by court intrigues, military conflicts, duels, conspiracies, and shifting alliances that characterize the aristocratic society of the 17th and 18th centuries -

Maurice Maindron pays great attention to historical plausibility, reconstructing with precision the usages of the nobility, the codes of honor, ceremonies, costumes, weapons, lordly residences, fortified towns and the landscapes of old France -

Maurice Maindron / Guy Arnoux - St-Cendre - 1930 - Editions Mornay -
412 pages.

Good condition of the binding, volume in its original full cherry morocco, wear from use, some defects/scratches on the cover, wear at the bottom of the first board, speckled edges, spine with raised bands, gilded title and author’s name, gilded edging surrounding the boards -

Good interior condition, rare foxing, title page printed in red and black and adorned with a beautiful color engraving, volume enriched with numerous and beautiful color illustrations in-text and out-of-text by Guy Arnoux, red double endpapers in very good condition, a pleasing numbered copy on Rives -

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