Mémoires du comte Horace de Viel Castel sous le règne de Napoléon III (1851-1864) publiés d'après le manuscrit original

First edition of this important work for the understanding of the Second Empire.
Binders half red shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with gilded initials of great bibliophile Roger Cormenin repeated five times, parts of title and volume number of black shagreen, some traces of rubbing on some minor back and joint, paper boards marbled, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges, elegant slightly posterior unsigned bindings.
Our copy contains handwritten corrections Roger Cormenin in margins of some leaves and autograph note explaining that these corrections "" corrections in ink have been made ??according to the exempalire Maxime Du Camp. / Roger Cormenin. "
Foreword by Louis-Antoine Léouzon Duke.
Provenance: the library Cormenin Roger, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and also a close friend of Gustave Flaubert.
Pleasant copy free of freckles set in a charming uniform binding.