Madame Chrysantheme.
Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1888. 328 pp. Illus. 8vo. Full black leather, gilt titles, beveled boards, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Dessins et aquarelles de Rossi et Myrbach. Gravure de Guillaume Frères. Hinges and spine cracked but still tight, roll to spine, scattered foxing, leaves crisp; still a good copy. Item #15698
Loti (1850-1923), French naval officer, achieved popularity with his impressionistic, exotic, and romantic tales and is a precursor to modern French fiction between the two world wars. This romantic tale of travel and adventure in Japan may have influenced Puccini's Madam Butterfly.
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