Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY
Les vieilles actrices. - Le musée des antiques
Librairie des auteurs modernes|Paris 1884|11.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
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First edition, for which there were no large paper copies.
Half maroon morocco over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments decorated with gilt fillets and double gilt compartments, date in gilt to foot of spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, covers and spine preserved.
Autograph inscription from Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly in red ink to Eugène Yung "... à Monsieur Yung (de la Revue bleue) ces petits bleus […to Monsieur Yung (of the Blue Review) these little notices."
An elegantly bound copy.
Provenance : from the libraries of Lucien & George Allienne and Heilbronn, with their ex librises on pastedowns.