Blanchard

New edition with some parts in first edition as it is expanded with unpublished letters to madame d'Houdetot.
Half green sheep bindings with small corners, spine slightly faded with four fine raised bands richly decorated with gilt and blind typographic motifs, marine sheep title and volume labels, mint cardboard boards with some light surface wear, some corners slightly bumped, marbled edges, Romantic bindings.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.

First French edition, translated by Isabelle de Montolieu. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Le Cerf. The half-title of volume 1 is normally replaced by two catalogue leaves.
Contemporary full speckled calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with two Grotesque compartments, urn tools and multiple fillets. Red title label and black volume labels. Charming, decorative set. Some surface wear, small lack to one headcap.
Caroline Pichler was born in Vienna in 1769. She was very early classified among child prodigies, and her first novel appeared in 1799, but it was with Agathocles (1808) that she quickly achieved success and was translated throughout Europe. Here is what can be found in Michaud's universal bibliography about her: "This book, which appeared at the time of the publication of Chateaubriand's Martyrs, rests on the same foundation, and is only the development of the same idea in a different form. Nothing is more curious and interesting than comparing these two works composed for the same purpose and at the same time, in such different languages and countries." (see the translator's note which exonerates Madame Pichler from any possible imitation). Caroline Pichler was for a long time the center of Viennese literary life thanks to her salon, she published her last novel in 1840.