JAMMES FRANCIS (1868- 1938)
Le Baptême de la sphère
Autograph manuscript. 11 pages in-4 on pages of schoolbook, bound in black half-chagrin, smooth spine titled in gold.
First draft manuscript in pencil and ink titled, folioed and with erasures and corrections in ink.
[...] "The angle of the shadow changes place, it was on the chapel of the virgin. It deviated like the angle of the focus of a lighthouse and now it is on the slab because the world turns...".
PROVENANCE "TC", autograph bookplate in pen ((WAB 45000 [est 20/25 M])) {55764/150000} Rach V12 12000 [est 15/20M] sold V32 7200 on est 8/12M and returned
