ZOLA (Émile). The Four Gospels. Travail. - Fertility.... Lot 687

ZOLA (Émile). The Four Gospels. Travail. - Fertility. -Vérité. Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1899-1903. - 6 volumes in-8: Fécondité: (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 345 pp. (1 f.), printed cover; (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 405 pp. (1 f.), printed cover. - Work: (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 329 pp. (1 f.), printed cover; (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 338 pp. (1 f.), printed cover. - Truth: (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 381 pp. (1 blank), printed cover; (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 367 pp. printed cover. Paperback, lined covers. First edition of these three novels forming the novelistic cycle that the author published under the general title of Les Quatre Évangiles. Zola was to complete the cycle with a fourth novel, entitled Justice, which remained only in draft form. Copies reprinted in in-8 format, with special covers. Travail and Fécondité are numbered on Hollande paper, in a limited edition of 250 copies for the former and 200 for the latter (nos. 164 and 131). The Vérité copy is one of 30 on Japon paper (no. 2). Paperback copies, as issued. Work: spine slightly faded. Some scattered foxing. Fécondité: spine and board edges slightly browned. Some scattered foxing. Vérité: spine and edges of second covers faded. A few centimeters of tear at one hinge of the first volume. Some scattered foxing in copies on Hollande.