Prosper Mérimée, La Jacquerie, feudal scenes,... Lot 207

Prosper Mérimée, La Jacquerie, feudal scenes, followed by La Famille de Carvajal, drama. By the author of Théâtre de Clara Gazul. Paris, Brissot-Thivars, [Imprimerie de H. Balzac,] 1828. In-8, [8]-422-[2]p. First edition, printed by Honoré de Balzac. This is Mérimée's third important text, though critics judged it more harshly than Clara Gazul. "It is perhaps the only important Romantic work, not illustrated, to come out of Balzac's printing press, along with Vigny's Cinq-Mars (1827)" (Carteret). 1500 copies printed. Bound in contemporary burgundy half-chagrin with corners, spine with 4 ornate bands, 3 gilt fleurons, 2 title-pieces, top edge gilt. Some faint freckling, small tears at spine ends, inner hinges partly open. A good copy. (Tranchida, 290; Vicaire, V, 705-706; Escoffier, 701; Trahard & Josserand, p. 26).