Paris (France)

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy after only 13 deluxe copies.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire. No limited issue on luxury paper printed.
Contemporary green half shagreen, black fillets annd gilt motifs to spine, marbled paper covers, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, speckled edges.
Some foxing, mainly on the title page, small tears to edges.
The first work by Poe translated by Baudelaire, with its preface entitled Sa vie, son oeuvre, destined to establish Charles Baudelaire's name permanently alongside Poe.

First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire. No limited issue on luxury paper printed.
Contemporary binding in half-black chagrin, spine with five raised bands, black fillets and gilt decorations, marbled paper covers, endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Slight foxing, not serious, a photographic portrait of Edgar Allan Poe pasted to the title page, leaving a halo-like mark on the the title page, small tears on the edges.

Stéréotype d'Hernan, Paris 1807, 8° (13,5x21,5cm), CLXXII, 297pp. and 488pp. and 486pp. and 392pp. and V, 310pp., 5 green morocco volumes.
Wonderful copy with 89 illustrations added from several Racine illustrated editions: a portrait by Santerre, 12 engravings after Gravelot (most of them before lettering, from the 1768 edition of Louis Cellot), a second portrait by Saint-Aubin, a portrait of Boileau, 50 engravings, mostly after Robert and Stéphane-Barthélémy Garnier (some before lettering, Edition Le Nomant 1808) and a set of illustrations by Barbier l'Aîné; 12 engravings by Moreau Le Jeune (Edition Crapelet 1811) and 12 engravings after Desenne by Simonnet (Edition Didot 1803). Printed on large wove paper.
Straight grain glazed green morocco binding (end of XIXth-century). Elaborately gilt spine, red morocco volume and title pieces, multiple gilt borders on covers, gilt fleurons in corners, inner gilt dentelle, all edges gilt. 2 scratches to the back cover of volume two, some to the first cover of volume 5.
A splendid and perfectly fresh copy.
Memoirs on the life of Jean Racine by Louis Racine, with épitres and prefaces of Jean Racine. Volume 4 contains miscellaneous works (Discours and Fragments) and volume 5 a correspondence selected by Louis Racine.

First edition printed at “Cercle nouveau du livre” before the ‘tirage de luxe' with Julliard several months later, one of the numbered copies, only print.
First name of a previous owner of the work discreetly written in blue ballpoint pen at the top of the title page.
A beautiful copy.
Publisher's binding in full green cloth, title and author's name stamped in gilt on the first board.