Alphonse Daudet - Les Amoureuses - 1863

Alphonse Daudet. The Amoureuses. Paris, Jules Tardieu, 1863, 100 pp. A bound-in-12 volume (170x110 mm), half blue morocco, spine with decorative raised bands, gilded head (binding of the period). Beautiful condition of the binding. Interior fresh, with no foxing. Edition partly original. This edition reworks and completes the first collection published initially in 1858. The volume gathers poems devoted to passionate ardor, sentimental reveries, and nature, as well as short narrative pieces in the form of dialogues. Among the texts are “À Clairette,” “La Rêveuse,” “Les Prunes,” “Le Rouge-Gorge,” and “La Vierge à la crèche.”

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