Jules-Antoine TASCHEREAU

First edition.
Full bronze calf binding, spine with four raised bands richly decorated with gilt fillets and dentelles and cold-stamped tools on the compartments, important cold-stamped plates composed of a rich frame of dentelles and fillets, four rosettes at corners, a diamond-shaped cartouche decorated with gilt arabesques and rosettes at center of boards, corners slightly bumped, gilt roll on leading edges and headcaps, gilt dentelles framing the pastedowns, some surface wear, all edges gilt, strictly contemporary binding, signed by Martin. Our copy is complete with the frontispiece and the facsimile of the signatures of Molière and his daughter.
Some foxing.
A handsome copy in a desirable romantic binding.

New revised and enlarged edition.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands enhanced with blind fillets, blind fillets and gilt typographical fleurons, edges tinted in chevron pattern, chevron-patterned marbled paper doublures and endpapers, period binding.
Bibliography at end.
Handsome copy attractively presented.