STENDHAL

The first edition, “very rare and extremely sought-after” (Clouzot). One of 750 copies, title vignettes by Henry Monnier.

Romantic pastiche binding of half pink calf over marbled boards with small corners, the spine with four delicate crimped raised bands (very lightly sunned) with gilt filets and blindstamped typographic motifs, gilt garlands at head and foot, marbled endpapers.

Le Rouge et le Noir, begun during the Restoration, was only completed four months after the Revolution of July 1830 and did not appear until the final weeks of that year. While all the critics at the time praised the exceptional qualities of the novel, even the most laudatory were s

Edition illustrated with 7 original etchings by Jean-Emile Laboureur, one of 300 numbered copies on vélin blanc à la cuve B.F.K. de Rives.
A tiny tear, not serious, to head of the spine, otherwise a good copy.

2 volumes in 1.
The first edition of only 150 copies, rare and very sought-after (Clouzot), of this essay written by Stendhal in Milan after his meeting in 1818 with Mathilde Dembrowski (1790-1825), the woman he loved the most sincerely and whom he never saw again after her departure from Italy in 1821. She features in the work under the name of Léonore.
Contemporary half caramel calf over speckled paper boards, restored. Re-backed to match original, the spine with gilt and blindstamped fillets, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Lacking final leaf with printed titles to cut out.
An important copy, presented by Stendhal to Paul-Émile Daurand Forgues (known as ‘Old Nick', 1

First edition, first printing (no edition stated), retaining both portraits of Mozart and Rossini as the frontispieces of each volume
Contemporary Italian brown marbled paper, author's name and red morocco titlepiece to spine, green morocco library label to foot, red speckled edges
Library stamps to endpapers and title, annotations in biro to verso of final page of contents: "collection musicale André Meyer
T5 10 1974"
Discreet and skillful repairs to joints, light foxing (not serious).

First edition.
Spine slightly faded with one small nick to foot, two others in the margins and an angular stain to upper cover, no foxing.

Edition with some parts in first edition.
Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, bookplate pasted to verso of first cover, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing.
Manuscript gift inscription on half-title page.

First edition. Numerous contributions, including those by G.Duhamel (journal de Salavin I), F.Ponge (la famille du Sage), A.Gide (journal des faux-monnayeurs, fin), J.Green (le voyageur sur la terre, fin), Stendhal (Edgar ou le Parisien de vingt ans). Some foxing to covers, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition.
Ex dono to endpaper, a good copy.

First edition not put into trade and printed in a small number of copies.
A small tear without gravity at head of spine.
Iconography, handsome copy.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on vélin.
A good copy.