Rapilly

A collection of twelve volumes comprising the complete eight-volume Collection des petits classiques françois, published under the direction of Charles Nodier and Nicolas Delangle, together with four contemporary works belonging to the same literary and publishing milieu. The original series was dedicated to the Duchesse de Berry and printed using the types of Jules Didot the Elder. The present set is numbered 17 and is one of 25 copies on Dutch paper, following 6 copies on Chinese paper and preceding 500 copies on extra-fine paper.

 

First edition.
Bound in full glazed bronze calf, spine with four raised bands set with gilt grecques decorated with gilt fillets as well as cold-stamped typographical motifs, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, joints very lightly rubbed without significance, frame of gilt fillet with gilt dots in corners and cold-tooled dentelle on boards struck in their centers with a cold-stamped mandorla, some light surface scuffs at head of boards, gilt edges on leading edges which show some small nicks, frame of gilt dentelle on endpapers, marbled edges, elegant Romantic binding.
Some light foxing.
Rare.