Paris

First edition, one of 5 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.

Half havana morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt stippling and ornamented with double gilt compartments richly embellished with gilt floral motifs as well as a mosaic navy morocco piece, gilt date at foot, light rubbing to spine without consequence, frame of gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt retaining its deckled edges, contemporary binding signed by Lancelin.

Work illustrated with a portrait of the author on the cover and title page.
Handsome full-margined copy in fine condition.
Provenance: from the library of Paul Ollendorff.

First edition of each volume, for which there were no large paper copies.
Contemporary half brown shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments, the bands with gilt fillets and triple gilt compartments with gilt decorative motifs, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Autograph inscriptions from the author on the half-title of each of the volumes.
With illustrations by Bertall to text.
Marginal repair with small paper lack to half-title of first volume, occasional light spotting, one pale dampstain to lower margin of final leaves of second volume.