Bourgueleret

Bilingual illustrated edition in first printing, translated by Charles Nodier with the English text facing. Notice by Charles Nodier. 10 plates by Johannot on heavy laid paper before letters and more than one hundred vignettes. Printed on fine tinted laid paper. A frontispiece on China paper mounted on heavy laid paper. Text within ruled borders.
Full glazed midnight blue calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with long mirror tools. Boards stamped in blind with a large Cathedral plate with foliate scrollwork (motifs that seem to reproduce the front cover). Edges gilt. Interior border. Fresh overall, but foxing on the frontispiece and title leaf. Traces of rubbing. One upper edge slightly bumped over 0.5cm. The figure p. 341 is missing. Captioned tissue guards present.
Handsome copy in a full contemporary binding. The plate used for the boards seems particularly well suited to the work (cathedral motifs softened by ornaments, foliage and other elements).

Bilingual edition translated by Charles Nodier and first printing of the frontispiece printed on China paper as well as the 10 steel-engraved out-of-text plates by Finden after drawings by Tony Johannot.
Half brown shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and compartments embellished with gilt arabesques, gilt fillet frame on brown cardboard boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary Romantic binding.
Work also illustrated with more than 100 wood-engraved in-text vignettes.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.

Bilingual edition translated by Charles Nodier and first printing of the frontispiece printed on China paper as well as the 10 hors-texte plates engraved on steel by Finden after drawings by Tony Johannot.
Half glazed navy calf binding, smooth spine decorated with a gilt cartouche adorned with gilt arabesques, light rubbing traces on the joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary Romantic binding.
Work also illustrated with more than 100 in-text wood-engraved vignettes.
Some minor foxing, handsome copy in contemporary Romantic binding, complete with its tissue guards protecting the 10 hors-texte plates, which is rare.