The Works of Charles Paul De Kock.
DE KOCK, Charles Paul.
The Works of Charles Paul De Kock.
The St. Martin edition of the works of Charles Paul de Kock; two volumes bound in full crushed levant navy morocco by Harcourt Bindery
Boston: The Frederick J. Quinby Company, 1903.
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The St. Martin edition of the works of Charles Paul de Kock; limited to one hundred numbered sets of which this is number 5. Octavo, two of fifty volumes bound in full crushed levant navy morocco by Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and raised gilt bands to the spine, floral morocco gilt-decorated onlays to the spine and panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated. Introduction by Jules Claretie. Translated into English by Edith Mary Norris. In near fine condition.
French novelist Charles Paul de Kock was one of the most popular writers of his day, in terms of book sales. His books typically sold 2-3,000 copies, while Balzac, Georges Sand, and Eugene Sue were fortunate to sell more than 1,000 of theirs. According to Théophile Gautier, "There never was an author more popular in the real meaning of the word. He was read by everybody, by the statesman as well as by the commercial traveler and the schoolboy, by the great ladies in society and by the grisettes."
