Jean Schlumberger - Plaisir à Corneille (promenade anthologique) [1/15 exemplaires de tête sur Lafuma navarre] - 1936

Jean Schlumberger. Plaisir à Corneille (anthological stroll). Paris, Gallimard, Nrf, 1936, 276 pp.

An octavo volume (190x145 mm), half calf, spine with raised bands, gilt top (binding of the period signed Jean Duval). Wear on the hinge of the first cover otherwise a fine copy. Interior fresh, no foxing. Covers and spine preserved.

Original edition

One of the 15 numbered copies hors texte on Lafuma Navarre paper

In Plaisir à Corneille, Jean Schlumberger offers a literary stroll through the work of Pierre Corneille. The author focuses particularly on the themes of heroism, will, honor, freedom, and the conflicts between passion and duty, which run through the great works of the playwright.