{"id":3051,"date":"2013-11-01T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2013-11-01T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:00:43","slug":"la-main-enchantee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2013\/11\/01\/la-main-enchantee\/","title":{"rendered":"La main enchant\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today from the Santo Domingo Collection, we have a handsomely designed volume: this edition of La main enchant\u00e9e<\/em> (The enchanted hand), a fantasy story by the French author and poet G\u00e9rard Labrunie, who wrote under the pen name G\u00e9rard de Nerval. (Students of French literary biography may best remember Nerval for taking his pet lobster, Thibault, for walks in the Palais Royal gardens.) Nerval originally published this story in the newspaper Le cabinet de lecture<\/em> in 1832, under the title “La main de gloire”. In it, a timorous clothier named Eustache Bouteroue seeks to triumph in an impending duel by putting an enchantment on one of his hands, then attempts to renege on payment for said enchantment, with predictably dire results.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This edition, printed for the literary society Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, includes numerous engravings by the illustrator Louise Ibels. In the illustration pictured here, Bouteroue\u2019s magical hand autonomously slaps the face of a magistrate, sealing his fate. This copy, printed for society member Laurent Mee\u00fbs, is extra-illustrated with an additional suite of the engravings, as well as two of Ibels\u2019s original drawings. At the end of the volume are a facsimile of one of Nerval\u2019s manuscript poems, as well as a menu for the celebratory dinner held by the Bibliophiles for La main enchant\u00e9e\u2019s<\/em> publication.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The volume is bound in black morocco and marbled paper by the Ateliers Laurenchet, with gilt edges and stamping; the original wrappers and spine are bound in.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

G\u00e9rard de Nerval. La main enchant\u00e9e<\/em>.\u00a0 [Paris]: Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, 1938. FC8.G3125.938m<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to rare book ca<\/em>taloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Today from the Santo Domingo Collection, we have a handsomely designed volume: this edition of La main enchant\u00e9e (The enchanted hand), a fantasy story by the French author and poet G\u00e9rard Labrunie, who wrote under the pen name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-Nd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}