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BERNARDEN DE SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri.
Umberto Brunelleschi. (illus)
Paul et Virginie.
Paul et Virginie is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as perhaps Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre lived on the island for a time and based part of the novel on a shipwreck he witnessed there.
- Published
- Paris: Fr. Guillot, 1943.
- Plates
- 12 + 3
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Fr. Guillot, 1943.
- Ref
- 1567
Quarto, printed folding wrappers, uncut, untrimmed, two unnumbered pages, 168 pp., publisher's folder, and matching slipcase. Beautifully Illustrated throughout by Umberto Brunelleschi, with 18 coloured pochoirs, including 12 plates, three ornaments, and three decorative letters. Limited edition, this is number 294 of 500 copies on Arches paper. A novel first published on the eve of the French Revolution in 1788, a story of two friends since birth who fall in love. Set on the Ile de France (Mauritius), then under French rule. The author lived on the island for a time and based at least part of his novel on a shipwreck he witnessed there. Coloured plates in order: 1. Full page coloured frontispiece of Paul et Virginie. 2-4. Small coloured chapter header and coloured initial letter. 5. Full-page coloured illustration of local island inhabitants. 6. Full-page coloured illustration of Virginie sitting up a tree. 7. Full-page illustration of two white servant girls. 8. Full-page coloured illustration of Virginie carrying a large water jar on her head. 9. Full-page coloured illustration of a nude Virginie about to bathe in a river. 10. Full-page coloured illustration of a French dignitary sitting on horseback with two native servants. 11. Full-page illustration of Virginie being dressed by a native servant. 12. Full-page illustration of Virginie being attended by a white servant. Formal evening gown. 13. Full-page coloured illustration of an old man and a young adolescent boy (Paul). 14. Full-page coloured illustration of a shipwreck. 15. Full-page coloured illustration of Virginie in a formal dress.
