Charles MONSELET
Rétif de la Bretonne, sa vie et ses amours ; documents inédits ; ses malheurs, sa vieillesse et sa mort ; ce qui a été écrit sur lui ; ses descendants ; catalogue complet et détaillé de ses ouvrages suivi de quelques extraits
Alvarès fils|Paris 1854|11.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 20 copies on pink paper, deluxe copy.
Half navy blue calf binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
Work illustrated with a facsimile as well as a portrait of the author as frontispiece, here in double state, which is the characteristic of deluxe copies.
A bookseller's descriptive label and a bookplate pasted at the head of a pastedown.
Another bookseller's descriptive label pasted on an endpaper has been torn away.
Some foxing affecting mainly the margins of certain leaves, a full-margined copy.
Half navy blue calf binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
Work illustrated with a facsimile as well as a portrait of the author as frontispiece, here in double state, which is the characteristic of deluxe copies.
A bookseller's descriptive label and a bookplate pasted at the head of a pastedown.
Another bookseller's descriptive label pasted on an endpaper has been torn away.
Some foxing affecting mainly the margins of certain leaves, a full-margined copy.
€400