Alfred de VIGNY

Original albumen carte-de-visite photograph. Salted paper print. One of the first portraits of the poet, who was one of the photographer's first subjects. Rare, like all the first portraits by Nadar of Vigny.
Photograph mounted on rigid gray cardboard, extracted from a collector's photograph album. In pen in the lower margin, Le Cte Alfred de Vigny, and in the right margin NADAR in capitals.
One of Nadar's first portraits where his refined style already emerges. "Nadar photographie ses modèles simplement, n'utilisant que la lumière naturelle et zénithale diffusée par les verrières et réfléchie par de grands panneaux mobiles. Les poses à la manière d'Ingres valent surtout pour...

Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full green grained sheep, blue top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper but lacking its slipcase and dust jacket.

Illustrated edition in first printing limited to 1000 copies on handmade laid paper. No. 480. A portrait of the author drawn and etched by Gaujean and 10 plates etched by Gaujean after Albert Dawant, as well as headpieces, ornamental letters and tailpieces by Emile Mas after Sébastien Leclerc. Original wrappers preserved with titles in gold and vignettes printed in blue and red.
Contemporary half pink morocco binding with corners. Raised bands in Jansenist style. Titles and volume numbers gilt. Top edge gilt. Entirely uncut, superbly fresh. Spine uniformly sunned. Light traces of rubbing. Scattered speckling on the spine of volume I. Small brown mark on the top of the first compartment...

The posthumous first edition, published in 1864 after Vigny's death by his literary executor Louis Ratisbonne. A frontispiece portrait sometimes missing, mounted on China paper on heavy vellum; this portrait was engraved after a photograph by Adam Salomon. Printed on vellum.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with compartments with triple fillets. Signs of rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. Occasional foxing.
Les destinées contains 11 pieces, 7 of which were published from January 15, 1843 to January 15, 1864 in the Revue des deux mondes. The last piece in the collection, L'esprit pur, was written 14 days before the author's death. This is...

First volume of the Delloye-Lecou collected edition, published in seven volumes from 1837-1839.
Contemporary half aubergine calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt dentelles, fillets and romantic motifs, all edges marbled.
Corner restoration to third leaf, one accident and lack to head of spine.

First edition printed in small numbers of this print apart from the Contemporary Review.
Bradel binding in half percaline sand, smooth back with handwritten label containing the name of the author and the title of the book, paper boards in the tank, preserved cover, Contemporary binding.
Precious autograph signed by the Count of Marcellus to Alfred de Vigny.

Illustrated edition with a portrait frontispiece and 6 etchings after Julien Le Blanc, engraved by Champollion as well as ornaments by Giacomelli. Title printed in red and black. Copy on handmade Holland paper, one of 100 unnumbered copies. Total print run of 200 copies.
Contemporary half brown morocco with corners. Smooth spine in Jansenist style. Title and date gilt. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to corners and joints, and to boards.
Very handsome copy, uncut.

First edition, one of 550 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.

The rare first edition.

Dark red morocco by Stroobants, the spine richly decorated with compartments and decorative tools in the Romantic style, date to foot of spine, triple gilt fillet frame to covers, gilt roulette frame to pastedowns, marbled endpapers, double gilt fillet to edges of covers, gilt roulette to headpiece, covers preserved, gilt edges.
With a frontispiece by Tony Johannot.
Autograph inscription signed by Alfred de Vigny to Madame de Fabricius, a friend of the author, close companion of Emile Deschamps and a regular at his salon.
Provenance : from the Grandsire collection.

A fine copy retaining its rare covers without any...

Belgian counterfeit edition published the same year as the original and unknown to Clouzot.
Half navy blue shagreen binding, spine with five fine raised bands decorated with black fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, corners very slightly bumped.
Handsome interior condition almost entirely free of foxing.

First edition.
Bound in half dark green shagreen, spine with four raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing affecting mainly the edges.

Edition illustrated with 65 original compositions by Georges Scott engraved on wood by Eugène Dété, one of 350 numbered copies on laid paper.
Half red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands with a tear in its middle, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Durvand.
Some foxing.
Copy in a charming signed contemporary binding.

Handsome typographic edition, one of 290 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only printing after 20 on Japan paper.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 600 numbered copies on laid paper, ours unnumbered, the only deluxe copies.
Fine signed autograph inscription from Louis Gillet to the poet Armand Godoy mentioning Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe
As frontispiece, a facsimile of an autograph letter from Sainte-Beuve to Vigny.
Spine and boards marginally sunned, handsome interior condition.

New edition published in the author's complete works.
Full lemon-colored long-grain morocco binding, spine browned with eight fine raised bands richly decorated with romantic decorative motifs now faded, red morocco title-label, author's name in olive morocco, gilt roulettes on headcaps, rich frames of gilt fillets, garlands and gilt rules on boards, gilt fillets at head and foot of leading edges, frames of gilt garlands on endpapers, brown paper endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, modern slipcase with lemon morocco entry, boards covered with marbled paper, contemporary romantic binding.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Alfred de Vigny: "... témoignage de...

First edition.
Half fir green shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands with minor rubbing, ornately gilt in double compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
A photographic portrait of the author taped to an endpaper, some light foxing.

First collected edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half dark green shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with five raised bands, covers preserved, top edge gilt.
Contributions by L. Tailhade, Sully-Prudhomme, V. Margueritte, L. Dierx among others.

Published before the first edition.
Softcover, as issued.
Occasional foxing.

First edition of this very famous anthology.
Contemporary half dark green shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons. Top edge gilt. Light traces of rubbing. Fine copy, very fresh.
Rich and numerous contributions including those by Arthur Rimbaud, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Pétrus Borel, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, André Chénier, François-René de Chateaubriand, Charles Nodier, Ulrich Guttinguer, Alphonse Daudet, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Léon Dierx, Théodore de Banville, Léon Cladel, Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Goudeau, Paul Verlaine, Guy de Maupassant...

One of 140 numbered copies on laid paper and decorated with 50 original woodcuts by François-Louis Schmied in color enhanced with silver and gold.
Full black calf binding, smooth spine inlaid with gray stingray leather, friezes of gilt squares at head and foot of the spine, upper board decorated with a vertical listel with inlays of stingray leather, cork, snake skin, salmon scales, gilt title at foot of the first cover and frieze of gilt squares at head, repetition in miniature of the listel on the upper board at the foot of the second board, with title in gilt : "F.L. Schmied 1924", covers and spine preserved, gilt paper pastedowns, gray lambskin endpapers, gilt top edge, housed in a...

New edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with engraved wood head- and tailpieces by Honoré Broutelle.

Anthologie des poètes français du XIX^è siècle
First collective edition for each of the volumes. The very first and early anthology of all the most important 19th century's French poets, including the contemporary ones like Rimbaud or Mallarmé.

Publisher's bindings in full grey cloth, spines decorated with a polychrome floral motif, floral freizes at the top and bottom of the spines, bevelled boards illustrated with a polychrome decoration consisting of an allegory of poetry and a floral decoration, brown or blue paper endpapers, all...

Signed autograph letter from Alfred de Vigny to Jules Lefèvre-Deumier.
An erasure of the author's hand, two gaps without impact on the text, a stamp of the "archives and collections of JL Debauve".
Alfred de Vigny sends this letter to his fellow poet to invite him to come and have tea at home. He informs him that "Monseigneur of the Church [him] gives an appointment here to [him] to communicate the answer he has received for the case". Jules Lefèvre-Daumier is one of the founders of the magazine La Muse française , a publishing house for the romantics who collaborated with Vigny from 1824 onwards.

Autograph letter signed by Alfred de Vigny.
An erasure and several underlines of the author's hand.
Folds caused by the mailing, a stamp of the "archives and collections of JL Debauve".
Alfred de Vigny sends this letter to order "six meters of this stuff ", which he joins a sample, the "city of Angouleme" , to make a dress for his wife.

Signed autograph letter from Alfred de Vigny to Eugène d'Auriac.
Folds caused by the mailing, a stamp of the "archives and collections of JL Debauve".
Alfred de Vigny thanks his correspondent for an order he made for him. This is an order for fabrics that Alfred de Vigny has made in order to make a dress for his wife. He sends this letter to "find out from Auriac which is the most suitable hotel in Rochefort" for a stay in the city in October. His correspondent, Eugène d'Auriac, is a writer and writer of the nineteenth century who participated in the newspaper Le Siècle.

New edition, one of 290 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only printing after 20 Japan paper.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 18 numbered copies on pur fil, the only large paper copies.
A good copy with good margins.

First Edition of The Merchant of Venice.
Half olive calf, uniformly brown back past 4 nerves decorated with gold threads and cold, golden double net coaching dishes percaline green shagreen, covers slightly soiled and kept doubling back, lined with green shagreen case, binding of Vincent.
Invaluable sent to Sainte-Beuve, "to Mr. Ste-Beuve, his friend Alfred de Vigny, May 2, 1840".
Alfred de Vigny adapted this play by Shakespeare in 1829, but had to abandon it represented mainly for administrative reasons. He, however, published in the sixth volume of his complete works published from 1837 to 1839 and in Delloye Lecou. In the nineteenth century...