PROUST (MARCEL, translator and editor) RUSKIN (JOHN) La Bible d'Amiens. Traduction, notes et préface par Marcel Proust, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MARCEL PROUST "à Madame Léon Fould, Respectueux hommmage d'un ami Marcel Proust" on the front free endpaper free, copy number "553" printed on justification leaf, paper toned, later cloth-backed boards, 8vo, Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1904 PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE BOOK'S EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR MARCEL PROUST: the first edition of his translation of John Ruskin's The Bible of Amiens, the reading of which greatly inspired Proust's own writing. It is inscribed to the mother of his close friend, the banker Eugène Fould. A group of six letters from Proust to Thérèse Fould was sold in these rooms on 24 June 2021, lot 192. Provenance: Thérèse Fould (1851-1911), née Ephrussi; her son Eugène Fould (1876–1929) and his wife Mitzi Springer. The book has the bookplate of the Bibliothéque du Palais Abbatial de Royaumont, a property which Eugène Fould purchased in 1923. In his autobiography, Fault Lines (2015, p.38), Alan's son David Pryce-Jones mentions this book carrying Proust's "dedication in his slightly disjointed hand to Madame Leon Fould...".; their daughter Thérèse "Poppy" Fould-Springer (1908-1953); her husband Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000); by descent to the present owner.