TOLSTOI, Comte Léon.
La Sonate à Kreutzer. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1890; small in-8 eggplant cloth, bradel spine, top edge gilt, untrimmed (period binding).
First French edition, published before the Russian edition.
One of the five first copies printed on chine, number 3. Numbered and initialed in blue by the publisher.
Translation by Isaac Pavlovsky and J. -H. Rosny aîné.
In 1890, the first two French editions of The Kreutzer Sonata appeared without
Vladimir Boutchik giving the anteriority of one over the other.
