Œuvres dramatiques
The personal copy of Empress Marie-Louise.
Exhibition: Die Bibliothek Napoléons I und der Kaiserin Marie Luise. Exhibition of a loan organized by the Association of Friends of the State Library, Berlin, 1931.
First original collective French edition of Schiller's works.
Sumptuous copy, one of the few printed on large paper, bound for Empress Marie-Louise, with her crowned monogram.
6 volumes in-8. Long-grain red morocco, gilded fillets and rolls framing the covers, crowned monogram stamped in gold at the center, smooth spines decorated with gilded fillets and rolls forming false bands and gilded lyres, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt roll on the turn-ins, blue silk doublures and endpapers. Contemporary binding.
214 x 135 mm.
Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805). Dramatic works translated from German and preceded by a biographical and literary notice by M. de Barante.
Paris, Ladvocat, 1821.
First original collected edition in French of Schiller’s Works, by M. Barante.
Brunet, V, 201; Quérard, La France littéraire, VIII, 518.
Sumptuous copy, one of the rare ones printed on large “vélin raisin” paper: “30 Fr., satin-finish paper; 90 Fr., large “vélin raisin” paper.”
Remarkable translation, “whose merit can only be appreciated by those able to perceive the challenges presented by adapting the author’s works into French.”
This complete edition of the Works of the great German poet and playwright is decorated with a portrait of Schiller drawn by Béhaeghel and engraved by Hassol, and preceded by a very detailed 142-page biography.
Sumptuous copy, on large “vélin” paper, at the time bound in dazzling red morocco leather with the crowned monogram of Empress Marie-Louise.
This is the personal copy of Marie-Louise, Duchess of Parma.
Marie-Louise, Archduchess of Austria, eldest daughter of Francis I, Emperor of Austria, born in 1791, married Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris on April 2, 1810. The King of Rome was born on March 20, 1811. Upon Napoleon’s abdication in April 1814, Marie-Louise received in full sovereignty the duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, while keeping her title of imperial majesty.
She retired to Schönbrunn near her father and was kept under surveillance after the return from Elba Island (March 1815). She then governed her duchies and secretly remarried in 1821 to a member of her suite, Count Adam-Albert de Neipperg, Austrian Feldmarschall-leutnant.
Olivier, 2654.
One of the major texts from the Empress’s personal library, in dazzling condition.
