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Captain Fracasse

  • Hardcover
  • Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1897
By Gautier, Theophile; Translated by Ellen Murray Beam
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1897. Red Letter Fiction edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Victor A. Searles. 532pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards, with lettering in gilt and ornamental stamping in gilt and dark blue. Top edge gilt. Extremities subtly rubbed. Spine and front board mildly darkened. Bookseller's ticket on the rear free endpaper. Periodic light foxing to the pages. Very sturdy and square. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. With 10 illustrations by Victor A. Searles. A satire of romances, set in 17th-century France, which includes all the principal characteristics of the quintessential roman de cape et d'épée (swashbuckling romance) made popular by Walter Scott and Alexandre Dumas. The character of Captain Fracasse is a brash, obnoxious swaggerer.
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