Hégésippe MOREAU

First edition. Fine edition, well printed on laid paper, complete with the errata leaf at the end.
Half emerald green morocco binding with corners ca 1860 signed on endpaper Champs. Smooth spine richly decorated with 6 successive Restoration-style tools. Gilt title and date at foot. Foxing to endpapers, some occasional foxing in the text on an otherwise clean copy. Full-margined copy, untrimmed.
Carteret: "Rare work, masterpiece of Hégésippe Moreau." The author is, despite himself, one of the cursed Romantic poets, who died at age 28 of tuberculosis, just as this first collection that would make him known was being published. 4 novellas or tales followed by poetry.

First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper and illustrated with an original etching by Gustave Staal as frontispiece.
Bradel binding in half blue morocco with corners, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Half red sheep binding, smooth spine faded, decorated with romantic gilt and blind decorative motifs, rubbing traces on the joints, one slightly cracked at head, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, edges rubbed, headcap detached, contemporary romantic binding.
Foxing, manuscript dedication from a former owner as a gift.
Rare.

First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper.
With frontispiece etching by G. Staal, introduction and notes by A. Lebailly.
Spine slightly warped, light marginal creases to boards, copy free of foxing.