Eugène DEVÉRIA

First edition.
Contemporary green half morocco bindings, spines uniformly sunned, with gilt fillets and dentelle motifs, marbled paper covers, morocco label "Marie Seillan" pasted on each volume, spine-ends rubbed, otherwise a handsome copy. Scattered foxing, paper on some issues a little browned.
Detailed volume contents :
- Volume 1: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores, 2 lithographs with the first two scores, an engraved portrait of Rossini, vignettes in the text.
- Volume 2: 25 issues (nos. 27 to 52) and 26 scores, vignettes in the text.
- Volume 3: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores (two scores are missing and have been replaced by three others). Complete...

Variorum edition incorporating all the remarks, notes and variants from previous editions (Le Duchat, La Monnoye, Gueullette, Voltaire, Marsy, etc.).
Contemporary half calf bindings with brown corners signed Pivoteau at the foot of volume I. Smooth spine decorated with 2 large mirror tools at head and foot, within frames. Cold-rolled borders on boards and corners. Wave-pattern paper boards. Marbled edges. Scattered foxing. Fine copy in Restoration binding.
Headcap of first volume very slightly damaged with small loss, some stains on lower spine of the last three volumes. Foxing not affecting the plates.
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 9 hors-texte plates by...

Variorum edition reprinting all the remarks, notes and variants from previous editions (Le Duchat, La Monnoye, Gueullette, Voltaire, Marsy, etc.), illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and ten hors-texte plates by Devéria, as well as 120 grotesque woodcut figures hors-texte engraved by Thompson at the end of volume 9.
Contemporary half chocolate glazed calf with small corners, signed at foot by Pivoteau relieur. Smooth spine decorated with 2 mirrored tools at head and foot, curved and straight fillets. Minor damage at foot of volume 3. 2 lower corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. Scattered pale foxing.
Handsome copy attractively bound in an elegant signed binding.

First edition of Charles Nodier's commentary and first printing of the frontispiece and 8 illustrations hors-texte by Eugène Devéria, one of the rare copies printed on vellum.
Half brown morocco bindings with corners, spines slightly lightened with four fine raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with double gilt compartments richly decorated, gilt friezes at head and foot, traces of rubbing on joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, contemporary bindings signed by Bibolet.
Some light foxing, library classification labels pasted opposite half-title pages.
Provenance: from the library of Paul Lacombe with his bookplates pasted...

Keepsake lyrique. Recueil de 12 romances, chansonnettes et cavatines
Leduc, Paris 1835, 24,6x31cm, full morocco binding.
First edition of this music collection by Rossini, Meyerbeer, Halevy, Bellini, Caraf, Donizetti... with 12 lithographs by Eugène Isabey, Gavarni, Devéria, Charlet, Bellange, Camille Rogier, Monthelier, on chine paper, mounted on thick paper.
Contemporary full purple morocco binding, housed in a goffered cloth case, spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind, pink moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt, printed on fine paper.
Slightly rubbed.
Superb copy.
Remarkable example of salon music that...