Les Bas bleus

First edition.
Half mustard yellow shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with blind-tooled compartments, black morocco title and volume labels, gilt date at foot, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt on deckled edges. Some very slight rubbing to headcaps, corners and on title and volume labels.
Reading marks in blue pencil in margins of the last three pages.
Autograph inscription signed by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly "à Monsieur Charles Buet / écriture déguisée pour cette plume moderne, mais sentiment vrai toujours".
Provenance: from the library of P. Tissot with his stamp as bookplate on the title page.
The writer and journalist Charles Buet held a literary salon on avenue de Breteuil where he received notably Barbey d'Aurevilly, but also Léon Bloy, François Coppée, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Laurent Tailhade, Jean Moréas, Stanislas de Guaïta and Félix Fénéon.
Signed autograph inscriptions by the author on this title are of exceptional rarity.