Title: Théatre de Clara Gazul, comédienne espagnole
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [6], ix, 337, [2]. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Prosper Mérimée’s first published work, a pseudonymous volume of six plays presented as the work of a Spanish actress of Moorish descent, ‘Clara Gazul’. First edition, with the faux-titre reading ‘Théatre de Clara Gazul’ (second state), and with the rare lithographed portrait of the imaginary authoress, based on Mérimée’s own face, in the state with printer’s name. A second edition, containing three new plays, was published in 1830 (see Bib# 4102985/Fr# 1350). See G. Vicaire, Manuel de l’amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, 1801–1893. Paris, 1904, vol. V, pp.700-02, and J.-F. Jeandillou, Supercheries littéraires: la vie et l’oeuvre des auteurs supposés. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; préface de Michel Arrivé. Geneva, 2001, pp. 140-57.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102984" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>