¶Sadleir 1046; Wolff 2648. Three copies only on Copac: Oxford, National Trust, BL. The title work of this small collection, occupying volume I and half of volume II, is a translation of Charles de Bernard's French novel Gerfaut, first published in 1838. It is considered the pinnacle of Bernard's oeuvre, and was lauded by the Académie Française. The other works are The Woman of a Certain Age (La Femme de quarante ans) and Persecution (Le Persécuteur), both translated from Bernard's collection Le Noeud Gordien (The Gordien Knot), also first published in 1838. A final piece, The Goldsmith's Wife, is translated from an unknown source. FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS. Bernard, 1804-1850, was a friend of Balzac, and for his novels of Parisian life gained huge popularity in the 1840s.