Furne

With a frontispiece portrait of the author after Girodet, two portraits and 25 engraved plates after Alfred and Tony Johannot, Rouargue, Régnier, Pourvoyeur, etc., as well as a large folding map. This copy complete with the Congrès de Vérone, which makes up the two final volumes and is often missing from this edition.
Romantic binding of half green Russia, spine richly gilt, green honeycomb-patterned paper covers.
Spotting, as usual.
A very good copy in an elegant, strictly contemporary, Romantic binding.

Collective edition complete works in 25 volumes in Furne & Gosselin. Original edition for The Life of Rance in Delloye. The original edition to the grave Memoirs of Eugene Victor & Sheepish.
Binders half fir sorrow, back with four false nerves decorated with triple boxes stamped cold and cold-nets of heads and tails, paper plates to the tank, guards and contreplats combed lined paper, and crowned armorial bookplate Charles-François Ferand (of Gerard Arcjehan) engraved and pasted the first contreplat of each volume, binders of the time.
The 25 volumes of the complete works are enriched, frontispiece, Chateaubriand portrait from Girodet and 28...

Later edition.
Half black shagreen over vellum-effect paper boards (slightly rubbed), spine in five compartments with blindstamped fillets, slight insignificant rubbing to joints, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, ex libris to one endpaper.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Alphonse de Lamartine.
Scattered foxing.

First edition.
Retaining a portrait of the author as frontispiece, a table and two cartes at end, publisher's catalogue to head of fourth volume.
A rare uncut copy in its original wrappers, two small lacks to foot of spine, some pale foxing.

First edition under this title.
Half aubergine sheep binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with gilt arabesques, some rubbing traces on spine, headcaps and joints, aubergine paper boards decorated with floral motifs stamped in blind, lower corners slightly bumped, minor rubbing traces on edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and 25 steel-engraved plates.
Some foxing.

Second edition with some parts in first edition as entirely revised by the author.
Half navy blue morocco binding, spine with five raised bands showing minor rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Work illustrated with numerous engravings in the text as well as 4 chromolithographs hors-texte.
Some foxing affecting almost exclusively the tissue guards of the chromolithographs.

First edition. Spine cracked, foxing. Rare.

Second edition followed by 'mélanges tirés de quelques bouquins de la boîte à quatre sols.
A tiny lack to head of spine, some light foxing, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition.
Autograph inscription signed by J.A. de. Lerue.
Furthermore, our copy contains numerous manuscript corrections by the author appearing on slips skillfully pasted at the bottom of the pages concerned by these modifications made by J.A. de Lérue.
Our copy is complete with the facsimile of the autograph letter that Victor Hugo addressed to the author congratulating him on the quality of his poetry.
Spine restored and reinforced, slight marginal lacks to boards, some foxing.
Rare.

First editions, false statement of second edition for the second text.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with triple blind compartments adorned with gilt fleurons, contemporary binding.
Light foxing, pale dampstain affecting most leaves of the first volume.