First edition on ordinary paper. A press clipping from Echo de Paris about the work pasted on an endpaper, having shadowed the facing page. Bradel binding in full blue-green cloth, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt fleuron, havana shagreen title-label with minor rubbing, gilt date and fillet at foot, original wrappers preserved, contemporary signed binding by Desnaux. Autograph inscription signed by Maurice Barrès to Charles de Peslouän.