Michel Lévy

Complete Edition.
Binders half red shagreen with corners, back with five nerves set with gold threads adorned with triple gilded boxes decorated in angles of black romantic arabesques, dates and golden friezes tails, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, three blankets and spine preserved (four courses with small marginal gaps), an upper corner of the third volume blunt, golden head.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph note signed by Victor Hugo Mery, brother of novelist Joseph Mery: "Dear Mery, thank your brother I will write it after reading it, but before I speak to the minister as I tell you.. Luther to Melanchthon: frater tuus frater meus...

First 12-mo edition, published a year after the extremely rare first edition.
Near contemporary half brown shagreen over marbled paper boards by Grandjean, spine in five compartments with blindruled fillets and double blindruled compartments with a gilt fleuron to centre, small tears to spine of volume 7, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, small insignificant tears to some corners and edges of some covers.
A good copy with practically no spotting in a uniform binding by Grandjean.

First edition, one of 20 copies on China paper, tirage de tête.
A small lack at head of upper cover, wich retains also traces of marginal folding to head.

First edition, one of 50 copies on Hollande, the only large paper copies after 20 Chine.
A good copy.