Andrieux

First edition illustrated with 4 red chalk portraits of women as frontispieces to the volumes.
Full red morocco bindings, spines with five raised bands set with black fillets, gilt dates at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle border on pastedowns, double gilt fillets on leading edges, top edges gilt, elegant contemporary bindings signed Andrieux.
Very handsome copy superbly bound in contemporary full morocco.

First edition, one of the copies printed on laid Holland paper.
Jansenist binding in full red morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns, pastedowns and endpapers lined with combed paper, double gilt fillet on leading edges, gilt roulettes on headcaps, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges, binding signed by Andrieux, binder to the House of Orléans, who was active from approximately 1837 to 1870.
Engraved portrait of Cleopatra as frontispiece.
A very handsome copy in perfect condition.