GONCOURT, EDMOND AND JULES DE. JOURNAL DES GONCOURT Memoires de la Vie Litteraire. 9 volumes. 8vo, 1/2 cloth, marbled boards; original

wrappers bound in; uncut; bookplate. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1887-96 FIRST EDITIONS OF A COMPLETE SET. ONE OF ONLY FIFTY NUMBERED SETS SUR PAPIER DE HOLLANDE. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EDMOND DE GONCOURT TO ROGER MARX. Marx is mentioned a number of times in The Journal. "The Journal (commencing in 1851) gives a sophisticated modern account of one of the most engrossing periods of literary history: Paris a century ago... both were excellent observers and there has been no one quite like them before or since... They were backward-looking aristocratic aesthetes like Des Esseintes yet realistic novelists at the same time... Preoccupation, for the first time, with writer's sex-lives and their ailments..." --Connolly, The Modern Movement 9. Tipped in Volume 9 --AN ORIGINAL PAGE HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FROM THE JOURNAL. The manuscript page is titled at the top of the page "Le Granier," and is in the hand of Edmond de Goncourt. One page, 4to, approximately 400 words with a few corrections; evenly browned.