La Pucelle d'Orléans: Poëme en vingt-un chants (The Maid of Orleans: Poem in Twenty-One Songs) - 2 volumes
Paris: Leclere, Libraire-Éditeur, 1865. Later printing. Leather Bound. xv, 211; 169pp. Quarto [25.5cm]. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Gilt stamped lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Gilt topstain. Mild scuffing to extremities. Light, sporadic moisture staining to the leather of each volume. Textblocks a bit wavy. Bookplate affixed to each front free endpaper. Very Good. Item #70000
In the original French. Illustrated.
A satirical poem about Joan of Arc. The poem began to circulate in the 1730s, and was immediately controversial. Though outlawed throughout much of Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, it became one of the most widely read texts about the life of Joan of Arc.
Price: $300.00