Les diaboliques

first edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.

Binding in half red morocco with corners, back with five nerves set with golden dots and double richly decorated gilded boxes, date golden tail, slight traces of friction on the joints, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper , preserved covers, golden head.
Our copy is enriched, frontispiece, a portrait of the author on China engraved by Paul-Adolphe Rajon (1843-1888).
Nice copy.