Less than half a century was enough for Romanticism to profoundly impact the arts and nations and leave its definitive mark on human memory. Is there anyone among us who does not count a Romantic work among his or her favourites ?
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...
The rare first edition of this collection of Fourierist poems.
Our copy is presented in temporary green soft cardboard covers, smooth sandy spine with manuscript notations of the author's name and title of the work, original covers preserved, but first flyleaf with marginal lacks.
