Auguste de VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM
Axel
Maison Quantin|Paris 1890|15 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition on current paper.
Binding in the bradel half vellum vellum style, smooth back adorned with triple gilded boxes and decorated with angles of gilded florets, marbled paper plates, preserved covers, gilded head, corners blunt, contemporary binding.
Notes of a bibliophile covering all the guard compared to the first preserved cover plate.
Some foxinges mainly affecting the first and last leaflets, shadows, some spots on the handwritten letter.
Our copy is exceptionally enriched with a beautiful autograph letter, mounted on tab, 4 pages dated and signed by Louis de Grammont addressed to Villiers de l'Isle Adam in which he regrets that the writer of Axel h
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