Les Chants de Maldoror [The Songs of Maldoror] Chez tous les libraires | Paris & Bruxelles 1874 | 12 x 19 cm | morocco in custom chemise & slipcase
Rare first edition, second issue with the 1874 wrapper and title page. Binding in full red morocco, inlaid boards with a significant gauffered black Box decoration, double red morocco paste-downs, double red baize endpapers, preserved wrappers with a tiny snag at the head of the first board, all edges gilt, dust jacket with flaps in a band of half red morocco, red morocco and black cloth slipcase, superb binding signed by Georges Leroux.
Stamped ex-libris from Ch.