Item #81264 THE STUDENT'S GIRL. Charles-Paul de? Kock.

THE STUDENT'S GIRL.

n.p. Privately Printed, [c. 1920s?]. Three-quarters leather and cloth, gilt title, t.e.g., decorated end-papers, head- and tail-bands. Some mild rubbing to extremities and occasional spotting inside. An unusual item in very good condition.

Item #81264

Unpaged. Carbon copy and typescript, with some minor corrections in what is presumably the typist's hand. This work is something of a mystery; set in the latter days of the Restoration, it concerns the amorous adventures of Fredrick Hombert, a young man from Besancon who came to Paris to study law, and of his love affair with the grisette Berneretta. The setting and tone place it in the tradition of the picaresque romance of Parisian life, of which Charles-Paul de Kock was a popular writer. The American Antiquarian Society holds a copy of a risque work by de Kock of this title, published in English in New York in 1844. Whether this copy is derived from that is unknown; what can be told from the quality of the binding and the labor that went into this production, is that it was some sort of labor of love by or for a person of no small means. The date is uncertain; the paper's watermark shows it to be Old Tabard Bond paper, which was made by the R. C. Kastner Company of New York c. 1918; approximately the last quarter of the book is typescript, on lightweight / onion-skin paper.

Price: $750.00