Notes sur Paris. Vie et opinions de M. Frédéric-Thomas Graindorge,... recueillies et publiées par H. Taine, son exécuteur testamentaire.
Paris: L. Hachette, 1867. First Edition. Octavo. viiii, 416p. Beautifully bound by Devauchelle in rich red morocco over marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. Taine had a profound effect on French literature; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica asserted that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant..... More