Alexandre DUMAS, Jr. *La Femme de Claude*. Play. With a...
Alexandre DUMAS, Jr. *La Femme de Claude*. Play. With a preface. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1873.
In-8, plum-colored half-calf, covers and spine preserved, untrimmed, paper slightly browned.
[2 ff.], LXXXI pp., [1 f.], 87 pp., engraved portrait added on China paper. Special edition, not sold commercially and given by Dumas fils to his friends, printed in a run of 31 copies; this one on unlined Holland paper.
Vicaire III, 476.
Bound at the head:
Signed autograph letter from Cham, December 8, 1859, 1 p. in-8, envelope.
The play premiered at the Gymnase-Dramatique on January 16, 1873.
In a polemical pamphlet, *L’Homme-femme* (1872), Dumas thundered, “Kill her!” regarding the adulterous woman. In this play, he put that summary advice into practice.
Cuvillier-Fleury, in an article in the *Journal des débats*, argued against killing the adulterous woman in the name of the Gospel; Dumas Fils elaborates on his position in his lengthy preface.
An important play that complements *L’Homme-femme* and foreshadows his work on the right to divorce.
Included:
Al. DUMAS Fils. *L’Homme-Femme*. Response to Mr. Henri d’Ideville. Twenty-sixth edition. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1872.
In-18, green morocco-bound half-leather, smooth spine slightly rubbed, decorated with four gold fillets, speckled edges.
Alexandre DUMAS, Jr. *La Femme de Claude*. Play. With a preface. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1873.
In-8, plum-colored half-calf, covers and spine preserved, untrimmed, paper slightly browned.
[2 ff.], LXXXI pp., [1 f.], 87 pp., engraved portrait added on China paper. Special edition, not sold commercially and given by Dumas fils to his friends, printed in a run of 31 copies; this one on unlined Holland paper.
Vicaire III, 476.
Bound at the head:
Signed autograph letter from Cham, December 8, 1859, 1 p. in-8, envelope.
The play premiered at the Gymnase-Dramatique on January 16, 1873.
In a polemical pamphlet, *L’Homme-femme* (1872), Dumas thundered, “Kill her!” regarding the adulterous woman. In this play, he put that summary advice into practice.
Cuvillier-Fleury, in an article in the *Journal des débats*, argued against killing the adulterous woman in the name of the Gospel; Dumas Fils elaborates on his position in his lengthy preface.
An important play that complements *L’Homme-femme* and foreshadows his work on the right to divorce.
Included:
Al. DUMAS Fils. *L’Homme-Femme*. Response to Mr. Henri d’Ideville. Twenty-sixth edition. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1872.
In-18, green morocco-bound half-leather, smooth spine slightly rubbed, decorated with four gold fillets, speckled edges.
