W. Coquebert

First edition.
Occasional light foxing.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with double blind compartments and gilt fillets, gilt initials at foot, black paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, one lower corner slightly bumped, contemporary binding.

First edition, without false statement of edition, which is quite rare for this work. The half-titles bear the heading: Complete Works, as the 2 volumes were indeed part of the staggered publication over several years of Lamartine's works, each volume being available for separate purchase, a common practice at the time.
Contemporary full tobacco calf binding. Smooth spine with 4 romantic tools in mirror arrangement. Brown calf title and volume labels. Blind-ruled frame and gilt fillet. Light scattered foxing. Upper joints rubbed. Traces of rubbing. Handsome copy in full contemporary binding.
Epic poetry recounting how an angel, in love with a mortal woman, takes human form at the moment she is about to be carried off into slavery by giants. Verlaine found in this book "unprecedented things of beauty." "The new episode that M. de Lamartine publishes today is full of both grandeur and grace, and reveals in the author an energy, a virility that we were far from expecting. Neither the Meditations, nor the Harmonies, nor Jocelyn promised what we find in the Fall of an Angel." Gustave Planche. Revue des deux mondes. 1838.

First edition.
Half navy paper boards binding, smooth spine, navy embossed paper boards, slight tear at foot of first board of second volume, minor rubbing to edges, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing.