Archives
Books, manuscripts, photographs, and rare objects catalogued by the bookshop over the years. An archive for bibliophiles and connoisseurs of written heritage.
4 works
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Paris, Fasquelle, 1898.First edition, in a binding by YseuxSold
Edmond Rostand
L’Aiglon
Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900.Rostand's only inscribed copy, on Empire green paperSold
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Paris, Fasquelle, 1898.On December 28, 1897, Rostand's heroic comedy became the greatest theatrical success since Hernani. Forty curtain calls, a unanimous audience — and even Félix Faure, the President of the Republic, attended a performance on January 6, 1898. The play ran for four hundred performances until 1900, and Coquelin, introduced to the author the previous year…Sold
Edmond Rostand
L’Aiglon. Drame en six actes, en vers.
Paris, Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900.The Bibliothèque nationale de France has held, since the nineteenth century, a series of documents on Napoleon I's son, from his birth at the Tuileries to his death in Vienna in 1832. He was born on 20 March 1811, when one hundred and one cannon shots announced to Parisians the long-awaited birth of the Emperor's…Sold
Showing 4 results out of 4.
