Louis Desessart

First edition.
Spine with minor harmless lacks and tears, foxing.
Rare.

First edition.
Full aubergine shagreen bindings, smooth spines faded and lightened decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, gilt fillets at head and foot of spines, gilt roulettes on headcaps, single gilt fillet border on boards decorated with cold-stamped romantic arabesques, front boards stamped in their centers with gilt laurel leaves surrounding the gilt inscription "Pension Membré à Versailles", marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, gilt fillets at head and foot of leading edges, three corners slightly bumped, elegant contemporary romantic bindings.
Some foxing, manuscript ink inscription by a former owner at head of one endpaper.
Our copy lacks its map.

First edition.
Signed autograph inscription from the author on the half-title page "à son ami Michel Chevalier".
Contemporary binding in half midnight blue calf, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt and cold fillets as well as gilt foliate interlacing, gilt mention "bibliothèque de Michel Chevalier" at tail.
Some rubbing and foxing, otherwise a handsome copy.
Provenance: from the library of Michel Chevalier with his bookplate.