PROUST, Marcel; C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin (translators); D.J. Enright (revised by). In Search of Lost Time. London: Chatto & Windus. 1992.
8vo. Six volumes; original white cloth lettered and ruled in black to spines, in the dustwrappers designed by Jeff Fisher; pushing to jacket and cloth spine tips, jacket spines lightly faded; all but vol. I with small ink stamp “D” (publisher’s remainder stamp?) to front pastedown; a near fine, unread set in very good wrappers.
A bright, first edition set of this uncommon six-volume uniform edition of Proust’s great novel in C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s enduring English translation, presented here in its final form, revised by both Terence Kilmartin and D. J, Enright.
Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu was first published in eight parts, between 1913 and 1927 (I. Du Côté de Chez Swann (1913); II. A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs (1918), awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919; III. Le Côté de Guermantes I (1920); IV. Le Côté de Guermantes II, Sodome et Gomorrhe I (1921); V. Sodome et Gomorrhe II (1922); VI. La Prisonnière (1923); VII. Albertine Disparue (1925); VIII. Le Temps Retrouvé (1927)). The first volumes of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s English translation appeared in 1922: Swann's Way (1922), Within a Budding Grove (1924), The Guermantes Way (1925), Cities of the Plain (1927) were each issued in two volumes, followed by The Captive (1929), The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930) and Time Regained (1931) in single volumes, the final volume translated by Sydney Schiff (under the pseudonym Stephen Hudson) following Moncrieff’s death.
Issued in a twelve-volume uniform edition in 1941, this six-volume edition, revised by Terence Kilmartin and later by D. J. Enright, includes a guide to the complete work, as well as notes, addenda and synopses at the back of each volume.
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