Nizier du Puitspelu - Lettres de Valère

Superb two-volume set of this edition which sits within the literary and documentary tradition of the 19th century, characterized by a taste for correspondence, personal testimonies and the preservation of regional cultural peculiarities - Nizier du Puitspelu, pseudonym of Clair Tisseur, writer, architect and Lyon-based scholar born in 1827, is particularly known for his attachment to history, popular traditions and the language of Lyon - His work testifies to a deep interest in the customs, expressions and modes of thought that shape the identity of a region, at a time when economic and social transformations contribute to rapidly changing living habits. - The Lettres de Valère belong to this approach of collecting and transmitting, by proposing an epistolary collection whose title suggests a succession of texts attributed to a correspondent named Valère and gathered by the author - Nizier du Puitspelu - Lettres de Valère, Collected by Nizier du Puitspelu - 1881 - Volume I and II - Meton - CIV-194/286 Pages. Good condition of the bindings, books in their half-leather binding with red morocco corners, marbled boards, covers preserved, wear from use, a few minor defects on the covers, foxing on the edges, gilded head edge, spine with raised bands, titles and volumes gilded - Good interior condition, browning and some damp-stain traces, title pages printed in red and black and adorned with a fine vignette, clean text, with an introduction by the author himself, edition limited to 250 copies only, manuscript inscription, endpapers marbled in good condition - Delivery service available within a few days -

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