Pagnant

First printing of the 31 illustrations outside text (29 plates and 2 frontispieces) and numerous vignettes within the text by Gavarni, Daumier, D'Aubigny, Adam, Emy, Traviès, Boulanger, Monnier and Théno.
This is a copy of the first edition of 1843 reissued by Marescq in 1844 with the same illustrations but with different titles and additionally containing 11 plates outside text in volume 1, 2 engraved titles as well as 2 frontispieces.
Texts by Paul de Kock, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Frédéric Soulié, Léon Gozlan, Edouard Ourliac, Eugène Briffault, Eugène Guinot and Henri Monnier.
Half chocolate brown morocco bindings with corners, smooth spines decorated with richly...

Second edition.
Half blue morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with richly ornamented gilt double compartments, traces of rubbing to spine, gilt date at foot, gilt fillets highlighting the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on a pastedown, top edge gilt, corners slightly bumped, binding signed Pagnant.
Foxing, a small angular lack at head of the half-title page on which the inscription appears.
Signed and inscribed by Amédée Renée.

First edition, rare, illustrated with 2 medals on the title page.
Full glazed blonde calf binding ca 1880 signed Pagnant, in 18th-century style. Spine with raised bands ornately decorated. Red morocco title label, black morocco date and place labels. Triple gilt fillets framing the boards. Rich interior frieze. Edges gilt. A slight scratch on the lower board. Very fine copy perfectly executed.
History and origins of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, in what is now northern Germany, and of its Dukes. The lands of Brunswick and Luneburg were elevated to duchy status in 1235, which was abolished in 1806. The Duchy of Brunswick then became part of the Kingdom of Hanover with the end of...

First edition.
Half burgundy Russia morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with a cartouche, arabesques and gilt fillets, gilt date at foot, very light traces of rubbing without significance to joints, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, bookplate pasted on pastedown, elegant romantic pastiche binding signed by Pagnant.
Work illustrated with an engraving as frontispiece representing Maximilien de Robespierre.
Rare and handsome copy attractively bound in a signed binding by Pagnant.

Second edition.
Half blue morocco binding with corners, spine very lightly faded with five raised bands, date at foot, marbled paper boards with minor scratches, slight rubbing to corners without damage, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, contemporary binding signed by Pagnant.

First edition.
Half cherry red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Pagnant.
Handsome and rare copy.
Bibliophilic notation on the verso of a pastedown.