E. Giraud & Cie

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half chocolate percaline, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, green shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, bookplate pasted on endpaper, printed stamp at head of title page, one lower corner slightly bumped, contemporary binding. Provenance: from the library of Fernand Le Grand with his bookplate.
Scattered foxing.

Second edition, with some parts in first edition as expanded with a supplement on public education in Germany and Russia, one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies with 25 Japan.
Bradel binding in half fir green cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt fleuron, gilt date and double fillet at foot, chocolate shagreen title-label with some scratches, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by A. Mertens.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Pierre Peugeot to Léon Cladel.
Printed stamps of the Université populaire du Faubourg Saint-Antoine in margins of several pages of our volume, pen numbering for library classification also in margins of certain pages.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
Handsome autograph inscription from Jean Lorrain to Sully Prudhomme.
Ex libris pasted opposite half-title.
Four small tears repaired and a tiny marginal lack to upper cover. Rare.

First edition.
About Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, G. Sand, E. Zola, A. Daudet, M. Rollinat...
Spine faded, handsome interior condition.

first edition on the current paper.
Binding to bradel half red calico, smooth back with a gold jewel, double net, shield and Date golden tail, burgundy shagreen part of title, marbled paper boards, preserved covers, upper corners bumped, binding of 'time.
Precious autograph signed by Jean Lorrain Francois Coppe.
Our copy is enriched with an author's tour departs mounted on tab, and left a clear trail surrounding a portion of the autograph.
Some small minor foxing, a library storage indication in pencil leads the first cover plate.
Copy pleasantly established.