Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne

First edition printed on laid paper of the author's last work.
Half dark blue shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with black fillets, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, two corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy.

Edition printed on vellum.
"Bradel" binding covered with paper moiré effect, smooth back, gilded tail date guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and spine slightly faded preserved, mottled head bookplate pasted on a contreplat, bookbinding signed Thiebaut.
Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter signed an Mery page addressed to Charles Reybaud and mounted on tab next to page 62 about a paid advertising on one of his works recently published in the "Constitutional" .
illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of Mery by Gustave Staal.
Some little foxing, evenly shaded guards and insolated.

First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper.
With frontispiece etching by G. Staal, introduction and notes by A. Lebailly.
Spine slightly warped, light marginal creases to boards, copy free of foxing.