BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Lot 103

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) Léa. [in: Revue de Caen. First volume. October 30 - 1st issue. Caen, Au Bureau de la Revue de Caen, 1832]. In-8, bradel cuir de Russie rouge, janséniste, title Léa gilt on spine between a set of curved gilt fillets, untrimmed, cover (G. R. P. rel.). A rare first edition of one of the writer's earliest short stories. It was published in the only surviving issue of the Revue de Caen, a short-lived journal launched by Barbey d'Aurevilly and his friend Trebutien with the ambition of continuing the social movement begun in 1789 and continued in July 1830, and to break away from the political and literary centralization exercised by the capital to the detriment of provincial towns. Léa occupies pp. 15-39. (Carteret, I, p. 100.) A wide-margin, well-bound copy with the cover preserved. Unidentified bookplate, from a bibliophile in Rouen, with the motto Oui, chers aïeux, lorsque chercher afin de vous aider à vivre...