ZOLA (Émile). The Experimental Novel. - The Experimental Novel. Letter to youth. Naturalism in theater. Money in literature. The novel. Criticism. The republic and literature. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. -In-18, 185 x 115: (2 ff.), 2 pp., (1 f.), 416 pp. printed cover. Turquoise half-maroquin with wide corners, cold fillet, ribbed spine, gilt head, blue calf lined front and back cover, cover and spine preserved, untrimmed (Blanchetière-Bretault). First edition of this collection of articles published mainly in Le Bien Public and Le Voltaire, considered the manifesto of Zola's naturalist doctrine. "They are (...) articles of combat, manifestos, if you like, written in the very ardor of the idea, without any refinement of rhetoric...My first idea was to rewrite them, before publishing them in France. But as I reread them, I realized that I had to leave them with their carelessness, with the throw of their geometrician's style, on pain of disfiguring it" (p. II). One of 10 numbered copies on Hollande paper (no. 8). A further 10 copies were printed on chine. Spine slightly faded. Second cover restored, spine lined. Light staining on top of page 1. Provenance: Dr. P. Blondin, with bookplate engraved by T. Ranson, dated 1907.