TIME REGAINED [LE TEMPS RETROUVÉ] Volume VIII of Remembrance of Things Past [À la Recherche du Temps Perdu].

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities lightly rubbed and marked. The contents, with two small inscriptions to the endpaper, some spotting and foxing to the prelims and a light water stain that effects the top edge of the text block affecting to the top edge of four leaves (from the title page to the contents page), are otherwise clean throughout.

The first English edition was limited to 1300 copies, of which this is numbered 1167. The eighth and final part of Proust's lengthy masterpiece.