GEORGE SAND: CONSUELO (3 Volumes in 2) and (Sequel to CONSUELO) LA COMTESSE DE RUDOLSTADT (2 volumes in 1) Paris, 1864. FRENCH

Description: Half leather binding with marbled covers with gilt outline.Five raised bands and gilt lettering and design on spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Title pages have printer's logo. 

Condition:  Very good. Covers have light rubbing, spines of Consuelo more so. Light age toning to pages. Title and endpapers of Consuelo are foxed with light random foxing to text. (see photos) Light pencil name and lines in 2 or3 places otherwise pages are clean and tight in all 3 volumes.

Pages: Consuelo Book 1: Vol I: 353; Vol II: 202 in book one, 350 in Book 2, Vol III: 411.

Size: 4.75" x 7"

Weight: 3 lbs 6 ozs

Levy Freres published various combinations of volumes, this one being complete in 3.

The Countess Rudolstadt is widely considered to be one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of nineteenth-century French literature as her masterpiece. The Countess von Rudolstadt, Consuelo, born the penniless daughter of a Spanish gypsy, is transformed into an opera star by the great maestro Porpora. Her peregrinations throughout Europe (especially Vienna, Berlin, and the Bohemian forest), become a quest undertaken on a number of levels: as a singer, as a woman, and as an unwilling subject of alienation and oppression. (Google Books)

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (1804 – 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognized as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.

Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand stood up for women, advocated passion, castigated marriage and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society.

This book is from the collection of Sherman Emery.

Sherman R. Emery (1924-2017) was born in Eliot, Maine.He graduated manga cum laude from Boston University in 1949 with a bachelor of arts degree and went on to earn a master of arts degree from Columbia University. In 1952 while making his home in Manhattan, he joined Interior Design Magazine and soon became the long time editor of the publication serving until his retirement. He enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the interior design field earning many awards.

Upon retirement he and his partner of over sixty years Harold Merry, returned to his home town of Eliot where they continued their successful book and autograph business until Harold's death in 2008. He was a stalwart fan of Opera music. 

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