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Colette Baudoche

[Auguste]-Maurice Barrès

This is the third of 11 novels with a dust jacket designed by Blampied in the Collection Nelson.

This copy illustrated is probably an undated later edition, so only the front panel and spine of the jacket are shown.

This is the second edition because the author did not like the jacket of the first edition, which had been designed by R.C. Peter (see below), a good friend of Blampied. Edwin Jack of Thomas Nelson, who liked Peter's design, wrote to Blampied on 13th February 1919:

Meantime I am sending on to you a novel Colette Baudoche along with a letter criticising this wrapper unfavourably from the point of view of subject. Will you make us a sketch of the subject selected by the author and send it to me as soon as you can. If you cannot get a photograph of the Cathedral of Metz I shall be glad to get one for you. I must say I like the kind of drawing of the present cover. It is French in style it seems to me and the vignetted drawing seems much daintier and more effective than drawings with a background often are.

As you can see, Blampied included a drawing of the cathedral at Metz, as asked.

Maurice Barrès (English) (French) (1862-1923) was a French journalist, novelist and politician. Colette Baudoche, Histoire d'une jeune fille de Metz was first published by Juven in Paris in 1909.

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Front panel and spine of dust jacket of later edition (click to enlarge)

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Front panel and spine of dust jacket of first edition showing the design of R.C. Peter (click to enlarge)

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