Béatrix ou les amours forcés

The rare first edition.
Elegant late 19thC half brown morocco-grained shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, bands with gilt fillets and double gilt compartments richly decorated with gilt decorative motifs, dates gilt to foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Ex libris of Alexis Martin, engraved by Aglaüs Bouvenne to pastedowns.
Marginal repair to foot of several leaves; the index of the second volume has been cut out and laid down on a piece of vergé paper.
A very good copy in a nice binding of this novel, which presents one of the finest portraits of the lady of the Divine Comedy.