Armand COUSSENS

Illustrated edition with 4 original copper engravings by Armand Coussens, one of 25 numbered copies on japon paper, this being one of the few hors commerce copies specially printed for Armand Coussens, as stated in the colophon.

Translated from the Languedoc dialect and prefaced by Marcel Coulon.

Contemporary half blue morocco over corners, spine with four raised bands ruled in black, date gilt at foot, covers of moiré-effect paper framed with black fillets, matching endleaves and pastedowns, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, an elegant signed period binding by Ch. Septier.

This copy is enriched with an autograph letter of nearly three pages, dated 8 July 1866 and signed by Jules Troubat, mounted on a guard at the beginning of the volume, in which he discusses Abbé Favre and the research he undertook concerning his correspondence and the letters he was able to recover and catalogue. He modestly acknowledges that the article and translation he produced of this title were imperfect and fragmentary, but states that he places them at his correspondent’s disposal so as to assist in the preparation of a new edition to be illustrated by Gustave Doré. Finally, Jules Troubat recommends a person more qualified than himself and better able to provide further information on Abbé Favre: a certain M. Gaudens, assistant librarian in Montpellier.

A handsome copy attractively bound in a signed contemporary binding.