Memorandum. Caen, Imprimerie de A. Hardel, 1856. In-12 square, red half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine titled in gold throughout, gilt head, untrimmed, cover (Canape).
First edition, not sold: Carteret (I, p. 168) announces an edition of 36 copies.
Barbey kept a diary on five occasions, which he entitled Memorandum, in reference to Lord Byron, in which, at the request of a friend, he recorded his menial occupations and daily ideas. This third memorandum was written in Caen for Trebutien: Trebutien wants me to make him a Memorandum of all the days I spend in Caen, and, for me, what Trebutien wants, God wants! he wrote (p. 1).
Copy on fine wove paper, enriched with an etched portrait of the author by E. Abot in two states on japon, including the pure etching.
Featured in the exhibition organized for the centenary of the writer's death at the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris in 1989 (cf. cat. Barbey d'Aurevilly, n°204: erroneously announced as being on chine).
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