La Forêt de Bréchéliant, la Fontaine de Bérenton, quelques lieux d'alentour, les principaux personnages qui s'y rapportent

Rare first edition of this predominantly folkloric and literary work: the Forest of Bréchéliant, also known as the Forest of Paimpont, is traditionally identified in Breton folklore with the mythical Forest of Brocéliande from Arthurian legend.

Illustrated with 14 full-page plates in the first volume and 21 in the second.

Our copy was uniquely extra-illustrated at the time with 59 postcards and 2 original photographs mounted on thin cardboard and bound into the volumes.

Contemporary half black shagreen bindings, flat spines with gilt compartments and decorative gilt typographic motifs, marbled paper-covered boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edges, original wrappers preserved.

The author of this text had no particular intention of reinforcing the authority of a location now regarded as such—if one may speak of a myth layered upon a myth. Trained as a chemist, Félix Bellamy (1828–1907) of Rennes eventually abandoned retorts to embrace the arcane.

A handsome copy, remarkably enriched.