Mongie

First edition published anonymously.
Half wine-colored shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded and lightened with five raised bands, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one upper corner slightly bumped, top edge red.
Work illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.
Gift inscription in pen serving as bookplate on the title page.
Rare and handsome copy.

Second edition. Half caramel calf binding, spine in four compartments decorated with gilt dots, roulettes and fillets as well as typographical motifs and blind fillets, marbled edges, elegant contemporary Romantic binding. Some light foxing of no consequence, otherwise a handsome copy.