Marie-Joseph de CHÉNIER

New edition revised from the manuscripts.
Half blue calf binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt friezes and cold-stamped romantic arabesques, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, lower corners slightly bumped, red speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing, a faint dampstain to margins of final leaves.

Collected edition ornamented with a portrait of Joseph Chénier as frontispiece to the first volume of works by Horace Vernet.
Half bronze calf bindings, faded spines with four raised bands set with gilt friezes and undulating blind fillets decorated with romantic typographical motifs in blind, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, slight tears of no consequence to some joints, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, elegant unsigned contemporary romantic bindings.
Handsome copy perfectly established in charming uniform contemporary romantic binding.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A thesis presented for the doctorate.
Spine faded and reattached with tape repair, interior in acceptable condition. Rare.