Joris-Karl Huÿsmans / Ch. Jouas - Le Quartier Notre-Dame - 1905

Superb first separate edition of this work drawn from the Collection of the Académie des Goncourt, very prettily illustrated with a portrait of Huysmans, with 9 full-page engravings and numerous large illustrations accompanying the text, all by Charles Jouas. This copy is numbered 158 in the in-8 soleil format -

Magnificent binding signed -

This work dedicated to the historic heart of Paris and more particularly to the surroundings of Notre-Dame, which Joris-Karl Huysmans, major writer of French naturalism and later decadence, observes with a gaze that is at once erudite, aesthetic, religious and deeply personal -

The book is part of Huysmans’ fascination with old Paris, its churches, its monuments, its ancient streets, its popular districts and the material traces of the past that the modernization of the capital tends to erase -

Through the description of the Notre-Dame quarter, the author does not merely seek to provide an architectural or historical guide, but rather composes a true literary stroll in which stones, religious edifices, streets and historical memories become the supports for a meditation on time, faith, art and the transformation of the city -

Joris-Karl Huÿsmans / Ch. Jouas - Le Quartier Notre-Dame - 1905 - A. Romagnol -
4]-36-[1]-1 bl. Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its original full blond morocco leather (binding signed Vinardi), under a cardboard slipcase (complete; covers and spine preserved), light signs of wear, tiny defects on the slipcase, gilded head, spine with raised bands, double filet borders, owl stamp, gilded titling and author’s name, triple filet framing the boards, filet on the edges -

Good interior condition, light browning, title page printed in red and black, first separate edition of this work drawn from the Collection of the Académie des Goncourt, and very prettily illustrated with a portrait of Huysmans, with 9 full-page engravings and numerous large illustrations accompanying the text, all by Charles Jouas, Gothic typography, limited print run of 350 copies, this one being one of 200 in the in-8 soleil format (158), provenance: from the library of J. Le Grand, with his ex-libris on a guard, marbled endpapers in good condition, a pleasing copy -

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