ZOLA, Emile.
My hates. Literary and artistic talks. My Salon (1866). Édouard Manet, biographical
biographical and critical study. New edition. Paris, G. Charpentier, 1879; in-12 of (2) ff. 374
pp. blue-green percaline à la Bradel, smooth spine, gilt fleuron and fillets, red morocco title-piece, untrimmed
untrimmed (contemporary binding).
Edition largely original.
Autograph signed on the false title:
To Léon Hennique
His devoted
Emile Zola.
Naturalist novelist and playwright, Léon Hennique (1850-1935) was part, one year after
after having received Mes haines, of the group which composed the Evenings of Medan, with Alexis, Céard,
Huysmans, Maupassant and Zola. Hennique published L'Affaire du grand 7.
affair, the one concerning the captain Dreyfus, which was to separate him from Zola whose
whose commitment he did not share.
