François de MALHERBE

New edition.
Contemporary half cherry red calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets, uniformly faded, signed binding by Thouvenin.
Foxing.
Provenance: from the library of Marquis Guillaume de Lespine with his bookplate.

Collected edition.
Bradel binding in full dark brown cardboard, smooth spine faded with traces of rubbing and some losses, hazel shagreen title-label with Malherbe's name in gilt, corners slightly bumped.
With an engraved portrait of Boileau as frontispiece.
Printed in two columns.
Copy almost entirely free from foxing.

Edition expanded with notes from all commentators and printed by L. Parrelle.
Half morocco bindings with Russian red leather and corners, spine with four raised bands set with broad gilt fillets decorated with gilt compartments enhanced at their centers with gilt typographical motifs, gilt friezes at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary bindings signed by Simier, binder to the King.
Frontispiece to the first volume with an engraved portrait of Malherbe.
Joints lightly rubbed, some minor foxing.
Handsome copy in a binding executed by one of the most prestigious binders of the nineteenth century.