Baudouin

First edition, rare, illustrated with 2 title vignettes and one figure.
Contemporary half glazed hazel calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with 3 complex blind tooled ornaments, with roulettes on the bands and at head and tail. Title and date labels in black calf. Marbled edges. Blind roulette on boards. Traces of rubbing, notably on boards. Scattered foxing. Fine copy.
Literary curiosity at the crossroads of several influences, that of the English Gothic novel, of the emerging romantic tale flirting with the fantastic and the pathetic, and parody of Victor Hugo's Last Day of a Condemned Man which had just appeared. The novelist closest to this narrative is undoub

First edition.
Copy in its original wrappers under plain covers.
Small lacks to the unlettered spine, light tears, creases and lacks to the boards.
One autograph correction on page 35.