P. Gueffier

First edition printed in 400 copies and illustrated with 8 plates outside the text, including one folding plate, as well as a portrait of the author as frontispiece. Berbiguier destroyed almost all copies after publication.

Contemporary bindings in half brown sheep, smooth spines decorated with quadruple fillets, dentelles and gilt fleurons, red morocco title and volume labels, grained paper boards, all edges marbled.
Two minor wormholes at the head of the second volume. Enigmatic and very fine pinhole marks at regular intervals on all three spines.
Bookplate of the R. & B. L. library pasted on the front pastedown of the first volume.
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Fine copy of the illustrated new edition of 1820, printed in 4 volumes, enriched with The Influence of Women during the Empire and historical notes by Charles Nodier.

Half burgundy embossed shagreen, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and fillets, marbled paper boards, yellow-stained edges. Corners of headcaps rubbed, wear to joints and some foxing. Scratch to spine of volume 2.

This copy contains 4 frontispieces engraved by Ad. Godefroy after drawings by Chasselat. The title pages of the four volume

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies of luxury, ours unjustified, only leading copies.
Autograph signed by the author.
Rare and beautiful complete copy of its ilustrate jacket which has some tears and small marginal gaps.