Romantic Bindings (1820-1850)

Edition illustrated with 150 in-text wood-engraved vignettes and 24 beautiful full-page plates (including 2 maps) steel-engraved after Morel-Fatio, Tellier, Gigoux, Daubigny, Debon, H. Bellangé and Alfred Johannot. It also includes 8 additional hand-colored engravings, including 2 of coats of arms and 6 of costumes, which are not found in the first edition of 1843.
Publisher's binding in full black and polychrome cloth. Light rubbing traces. Small lack of gilding at foot. Very occasional pale foxing on clean white paper.
A very handsome copy.

First edition of this deluxe keepsake composed of Finden engravings and 12 texts on tinted vellum in prose and verse by Barrett, Mitford, John Hughes. A frontispiece and 12 large steel compositions in an octagon surrounded by vignettes engraved in line and printed on strong vellum. Drawings or paintings by James Brown, engraved by Finden and other English engravers in his circle.
Publisher's binding in full blue shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with a rich ornamental composition of foliage, vases... Boards decorated with a large central ornament of interlaced scrollwork, similar in the corners. Edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Hard slipcase of blue and red marbled paper (rubbing). Small...

First edition.
Full aubergine shagreen bindings, smooth spines faded and lightened decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, gilt fillets at head and foot of spines, gilt roulettes on headcaps, single gilt fillet border on boards decorated with cold-stamped romantic arabesques, front boards stamped in their centers with gilt laurel leaves surrounding the gilt inscription "Pension Membré à Versailles", marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, gilt fillets at head and foot of leading edges, three corners slightly bumped, elegant contemporary romantic bindings.
Some foxing, manuscript ink inscription by a former owner at head of one endpaper.
Our copy lacks its map.

The very rare first edition.

Full glazed red calf bindings, smooth spines ornately decorated with gilt vegetal motifs, black calf title labels, gilt tooling on the headcaps, frames of quadruple black and gilt fillets enhanced with gilt fleurons at the corners on marbled paper boards, pink paper endpapers and pastedowns slightly soiled at margins, all edges gilt, gilt fillets at head and tail of leading edges, contemporary bindings.

Some light rubbing to boards, some minor foxing.

A handsome and rare copy of this work dedicated to his friend Béranger bound in an elegant contemporary Romantic binding. 

New edition for each of the volumes.
Half sheep binding in plum color, smooth spine slightly discolored and faded decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, charming contemporary romantic binding.
Some minor foxing without consequence.
Handsome copy beautifully bound.

New revised and recast edition, illustrated with 16 plates and 2 figures enhanced and hand-colored on heavy paper, totaling 32 figures (the drawing is charming, often animated with several characters). Third edition statement, the first having appeared in 1838.
Bound in full black romantic shagreen. Smooth spines richly decorated with rocaille tooling. Covers decorated with a rocaille frame and double fillet border. Interior frieze. White moiré endpapers. All edges gilt. Relatively fresh, with foxing at the tissue guards and the plates more brown; some scattered browning. Multiple pagination, each part having its own pagination. 3 corners slightly bumped.
Very handsome copy, rare...

First edition, the first volume being at the right date of 1832, which is very rare according to Clouzot.
Binders in half navy blue morocco navy corners, smooth back decorated with cartridges decorated with golden floral friezes, golden dates in tails, gilt fillets on the plates of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blankets and back preserved, elegant bindings in the romantic style signed by Champs.
Rare and pleasant copy set in a perfect romantic binding of Champs.

First edition, illustrated with a folding map of Palestine in colors and 33 plates on chine collé mounted on strong paper. Text framed with a gothic wooden border. La vie de Jésus-Christ is followed by Objections contre le christianisme et réponses.
Contemporary full red morocco bindings with long grain (Russia leather) signed Malibert. Smooth spines richly decorated with a large plate. Boards decorated with a large central iron in the form of a cross and a large frame plate with various motifs. Frame fillets. Blue and red morocco doublures on the pastedowns with geometric decoration. Gilt edges. Headcaps lightly rubbed. Corners rubbed. A small tear to a lower border...

New edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 plates and numerous vignettes by Tony Johanot. Handsome romantic illustrated work.
Polychrome publisher's boards signed Lenègre at foot of spine. Smooth spine richly decorated with a polychrome panel with elaborate design. Front board decorated with a chained man and a wide polychrome floral border frame. On the rear board, a scene showing a young man at his work table. The blue is somewhat faded on the spine, one corner rubbed, rear board dusty at margins. One crease on spine. Handsome copy, perfectly fresh, with some occasional scattered foxing.
My Prisons are the memoirs of a man incarcerated by arbitrary power. Following the...

First edition illustrated with 26 vignettes.
Full green shagreen binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with gilt romantic ornamental motifs, boards with blind-ruled frames decorated at their centers with gilt romantic ornamental motifs, scratch on lower board, gilt edges, romantic binding by Boutigny.
Literary contributions by Vigny, Chateaubriand...
Work illustrated with 26 steel-engraved plates and one title vignette by the finest English artists.
Foxing.

First edition, illustrated with 12 steel-engraved plates.

Contemporary full brown straight-grained morocco. Smooth spine decorated with large Romantic tools with date at foot. Covers with large blind Greek key border and gilt fillet frame. All edges gilt. Decorative gilt board-edges. White watered paper endpapers. Spine uniformly sunned, turned brown. One corner rubbed. Several gatherings browned. Handsome copy nonetheless, in contemporary morocco.

One of Curmer's famous and beautiful publications, who had just published in 1838 one of the most celebrated Romantic books: Paul et Virginie. An essential literary figure from the mid-19th century onwards, La bedollière...

First edition, illustrated with two engraved titles (in English), one colored plate and 117 steel engravings (with tissue guards) by Allom, Bartlett, and M'Culloch, engraved by Griffiths, Varrall, Prior, etc. Superb illustration, as English engravers were particularly prized during this period for their fineness of execution, and French publishers placed extensive orders in England for the illustration of their books.
Full publisher's binding. Half red morocco decorated with a large special gilt stamp (arms and symbols of Scotland) on wine-colored sheep boards stamped with a large decorative floral stamp in blind. Edges gilt. Magnificent and rare English publisher's binding, despite...

First edition, illustrated with 26 English steel engravings (including the second title).
Half wine-red morocco binding. Romantic Boutigny plaque on spine. Very fine marbled paper on boards. Boutigny binder's label on endpaper. Spine uniformly sunned, without gravity, and ultimately aesthetic. Scattered foxing in margins, despite very white paper.
Literary contributions by Chateaubriand, Alexandre Dumas, Paul de Kock, Casimir Delavigne...

First edition, illustrated with 148 steel-engraved plates, including 96 in the first three volumes, by Thomas Allom; the fourth volume comprises 52 plates including 36 by Eugène Lami and 16 by Allom.
Full midnight blue glazed calf. Flat spine with false raised bands decorated with various roulettes and fillets with some compartments in morocco. Covers decorated with rich Romantic frieze and angular blind stamps. Red morocco title-label. Marbled edges. Scratches to covers. Headcaps and joints lightly rubbed. Superb English binding.
Volume IV, which is often lacking, is the translation of Un été à Paris, by Jules Janin. Through its illustrations, one finds a Balzacian Paris. It...