Desoer

New edition printed on laid paper and illustrated with 15 out-of-text engravings printed on China paper.
Full glazed blue calf bindings, lightened spines with five raised bands set with gilt garlands ornamented with fleurons and blind-stamped dots, gilt friezes at head and tail of spines, blind rolls on headcaps, light rubbing at head and tail of joints, frame of romantic arabesque garlands blind-stamped on boards, struck at their centers with a blind-stamped mandorla at the center of which sits a blind-stamped flower with gilt pistil, gilt corner ornaments on boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of blind dentelle on pastedowns, marbled edges, blind garland on leading edges, one corner slightly bumped, very elegant contemporary romantic bindings signed by Thouvenin.
Handsome copy perfectly executed.

Edition illustrated with 14 hors-texte engravings and a folding genealogical table.
Half black shagreen bindings, spine with four raised bands set with gilt garlands decorated with quintuple gilt and black compartments, double gilt fillet frame on black paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some corners slightly bumped without significance, a small crack in the joint of volume seven, speckled edges.
Handsome set in uniform binding.

First edition.
Work illustrated with 93 figures in the text.
Handsome copy.