PROUST, Oeuvres complètes -à la gerbe-, 1929

PROUST, Marcel.

Oeuvres complètes.

Paris, NRF, 1929-1936.

18 volumes 8vo (225x140 mm), complete edition. binding : Contemporary half morocco, ornated spines. Original wrappers have been bound in. Few scratches on spines.

First complete edition of the works of Marcel Proust.
This edition by the NRF was an opportunity to bring together all the works of Marcel and to propose a first revision of the text with the collaboration of Robert Proust. It is also this edition which fixes the so-called "canonical" volume number of the Recherche.
The first fifteen volumes are devoted to the "A la Recherche du temps perdu", then come "Pastiches et mélanges", "Les Plaisirs et les Jours" and "Chroniques".
Numbered copies on Bruges rag paper with sheaf watermark.
Beautiful decorative set.

references: Nathalie Mauriac Dyer ["Remarques sur la tomaison d'À la recherche du temps perdu", Littérature, 1992 : "La Nouvelle Reuve Française annonce comme en préparation la liste de ce qui va devenir le prototype de l'édition définitive de la Recherche, liste "canonique" depuis reprise par l'ensemble des éditions et rééditions"].

Price : 1200 €

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