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Jacques-Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE

Paul et Virginie suivi de la chaumière indienne

Editions Curmer, Paris 1838, grd et fort in 8 (17x25,7cm), 458pp., Un Vol. relié.

First edition at Curmer and First printing.
Binding called "oriental" editor, commissioned to Simier. Full red shagreen. Smooth back decorated with a plate with orientalising motifs. Plate richly stamped with a large plate with a six-pointed star at its center. Golden slices. Restoration in mind, otherwise the status of this famous and rare publisher's binding.
A missing seam at the internal hinge of the upper plate causing some play of the first board, without gravity. Scattered foxing, unevenly distributed. Paper remained white. Serpentes present. The sheet covered with white moiré paper is detached at the end of the volume.

Without a doubt one of the most beautiful books produced by Romanticism, it is one of those editions that have made the glory of the romantic book. Abundantly but elegantly illustrated, endowed with a neat typography. 29 wood on China of tony johannot and 450 vignettes of Huet, Meissonier, French. 7 engraved steel portraits, a map in color. The notice of Saint Beuve has 9 lines against 8 in most ex LII. See Vicaire ... Copy of Richelieu Street. The engraving of the "good woman" p. 418 is missing as in all first-run copies. However, if the copy corresponds to several characteristics of the First printing, it does not have them all.
Rare copy in his Publishers'binding "oriental" Simier.

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