Auguste Wahlen

Edition of the same year as the first edition.
Copy in its original wrappers.
Some paper losses to the spine and margins of the covers, front cover tending to come loose.

Assembly by the owner of two works with the objective of completing them; the owner thus added to the volume of Selected Works published in Paris, a tome (the second) of the complete works published in Brussels. A frontispiece and title vignette for the Selected Works.
Books bound with the arms of the Earl of Lucan (Ireland, County Dublin), George Charles Bingham, Field Marshal, with the motto: Spes mea Christus. The presence of fleurs-de-lis is doubtless explained by the fact that the first Earl of Lucan was the son of Jacques Fitz-James, naturalized French.
Contemporary full rose calf binding (English binding) signed Hering. Smooth spine decorated with grotesque foliage and a crowned eagle (symbol of the Earl's arms). Boards stamped with arms and dotted fillet border. Inner dentelle and on the edges. One damage to the upper joint of volume II. Marbled edges. Spine very lightly faded. A lack to the title-label of volume II. Joints rubbed. Very handsome copy, despite minor defects.
Although the poet Parny, pre-Romantic in his writing, has today fallen into disuse, he was not only popular but received unequaled esteem from his peers; thus Chateaubriand wrote: "I knew by heart the elegies of the Chevalier de Parny, and I still know them," and Pushkin, evoking erotic poetry, said that Parny was his master.