Hippolyte Taine / Paul Emile Colin - Notes sur l'Angleterre [ex. sur vélin] - 1923

Very beautiful illustrated edition published in the collection Les Maîtres du livre, adorned with two frontispieces printed in two tones and six headbands engraved by Paul Emile-Colin (1867-1949).

Limited to 1,955 copies, this one is number 1,850 (No. 158) on Rives.

Complete in two volumes, bound in luxurious half-emerald green morocco with corner pieces, with cold gilt lines along the covers and corners; spine decorated with the title and author's name in gilt letters, gilded top edges, covers and spine preserved.
In very good condition. Solid and clean bindings, showing some sunning on the spine and corners. Minor rubbing on the edges and corners. Interior fresh and clean, without foxing.

Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) was one of France's leading thinkers in the last third of the 19th century, and he was admired outside France by the English, who interpreted his literature with mastery and some dogmatism, by Nietzsche in Germany, and by Brandes in Scandinavia. As a literary critic and art critic, as well as a psychologist and historian, he remains one of the most important thinkers and one of the most endearing figures of the late 19th century. Taine's reputation declined during the rise of Bergsonism and later with the irrationalism of the 1920s-1940s. Previously, Bourget, Barrès, Maurras, after Zola and the naturalists, had been deeply influenced by him.


Hippolyte Taine / Paul Emile Colin
Notes on England
Paris, Crès - Les Maîtres du Livre, 1923.
Small octavo (19x13 cm); iii-259 + 270 pages.