François René de CHATEAUBRIAND (to the Comte de MARCELLUS)
Mémoires d'outre-tombe : "Tout à vous du fond de ma tombe"[Memoirs from Beyond the Grave] with a letter "from the depths of my grave"
Eugène • Victor Penaud frères|Paris 1849-1850 ; 14 avril 1839 (lettre manuscrite)|13.7 x 21.2 cm|12 volumes reliés et une lettre signée
Rare and sought-after first edition, first issue, with exceptionally added plates from the first illustrated edition, published that same year. 34 full-page engravings after Demoraine, Gagnier, Staal and engraved by F. Delannoy.
Includes the subscribers’ list and the foreword, which will be removed for the second issue when the remainder of this edition was bought by another publisher, Dion-Lambert. It also features the pagination error in volume two: page 164 instead of 364.
With a scribal letter by the author, bearing his autograph signature. One page written in black ink on a leaf. Slightly darkened at the upper edge, with occasional foxing, and the usual folds.
Black half-morocco...
€18,000