Verdière

New edition directed by M.A.G. Demarest.
Half navy blue calf bindings, spines with four raised bands set with triple gilt fillets and decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, gilt friezes at foot of spines, some light rubbing to certain spines or headcaps, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, corners slightly bumped.
Some light foxing.
Our copy lacks the 189 watercolored and gummed plates that appear in most copies.

First edition.
Half brown morocco bindings, spines with five raised bands showing some rubbing, gilt dates at foot, red morocco title and volume labels, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt.
Some light foxing.

Illustrated collected edition with a portrait of the author copper engraved by A. Migneret after a painting by Ducreux, a portrait engraved by Roger after Gérard, two illustrations after Devéria, with the artists' names simply engraved á la pointe, and 13 portraits copper engraved by Pierre Adam. A vélin paper copy.
Contemporary purple long-grain morocco by Duplanil, spine richly gilt with arabesques, covers with gilt fillets and fleurons as well as a roulette and central blindstamped geometric motif, gilt striae to corners, geometric roulette frame to pastedowns, all edges gilt.
A few spines slightly faded, otherwise a superb copy in a luxurious contemporary morocco binding.