Oeuvres complètes de P.J. de Béranger, édition unique revue par l'auteur, ornée de vignettes en taille-douce dessinées par les peintres les plus célèbres

Edition with some parts in first edition, illustrated with 104 vignettes after drawings by Daubigny, Johannot, Charlet, Raffet, Scheffer, Devéria...
Half cherry red calf bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets as well as blind typographical motifs and gilt romantic arabesques, gilt friezes at head and foot, black shagreen title and volume labels, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary romantic bindings.
The illustrations are distributed as follows:
Volume 1: 1 frontispiece and 25 figures,
Volume 2: 33 figures,
Volume 3: 40 figures,
Volume 4: 6 including 1 portrait plus 1 facsimile.
Our set is complete with the fifth volume consisting of the music for Béranger's songs.
Handsome set almost entirely free of foxing and bound in charming contemporary romantic binding.