THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD The Translation by Lafcadio Hearn With an Introduction by A. S. W. Rosenbach

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, One of only 1500 hand-numbered copies signed by Sylvain Sauvage. Beautifully illustrated in colour by Sylvain Sauvage, including numerous full-page plates and half-page illustrations within the text, also with a frontispiece and vignette titlepage, the text in black and red. Tall 4to, in sage-green cloth, the covers with a pictorially decorated framework in dark green, the upper cover gilt lettered, the spine decorated in dark green and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., in the rarely encountered original glassine wrapper and in the publisher's slipcase of glossy black paper-covered boards. viii, 190, [1] pp. A brilliant copy, the book as new, a pristine and very fine copy without flaw, the very scarce glassine wrapper toned and with some loss and chipping, the slipcase solid and handsome but with some expected wear at the edges and corners

Edizione: a very fine copy of the edition designed by edward a. miller and decorated with sylvain sauvage's masterful watercolours. this handsome limited edition is also signed by sylvain sauvage and is limited to only 1500 copies.<br> the crime of sylvestre bonnard is anatone france's first novel, and one of his earliest prose works. it is a significant work of ironist fiction. the novel is written as two stories, both related through the diary entries of sylvestre bonnard, a historian and philologist who lives among books. it was for this novel that france received the prestigious académie française prize. in 1921 the author received the nobel prize in literature.<br> félix roy, known professionally as sylvain sauvage, was an exhibitor at the salon des artistes décorateurs and director of the école estienne in paris.