Anonymous. The day after the last day of a condemned... Lot 1625

Anonymous. The day after the last day of a condemned man. Paris et Genève, Ballimore et Cherbuliez, 1829. In-12 of 192 pp. blond half calf, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Covers and corners worn, spine rubbed, foxing. Unknown to Barbier. Rare parody of Victor Hugo's text, attributed to the publisher Joël Cherbuliez: "In 1829, Joël Cherbuliez published a parody of Hugo's novel Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man), which was a resounding success: Le lendemain du dernier jour d'un condamné (Paris, Th. Ballimore, 1829); it will remain (it seems) his only personal attempt in the literary field (his other known texts, notably an article on the Radical Party in Switzerland published in the Revue des Deux Mondes, and his collaborations with the Genevan bi-weekly Le Fédéral3, will deal with political problems); we know from the genealogy of Geneva that Joël Cherbuliez married a Miss Félicité Ballimore: the editor of his Hugolian parody is thus his (future?) father-in-law or brother-in-law. The Cherbuliez bookstore in Geneva and the Ballimore bookstore in Paris were associated in 1829 for the publication of an important translation of Friedrich Schlegel's Histoire de la littérature ancienne et moderne4 due to William Duckett (1768-1841), an English poet staying in Paris and translating occasionally from German into French, author of an English grammar written in French, published in Paris in 1828." J.-Y. Masson, 1830 at Cherbuliez, Geneva booksellers-publishers.