First edition. Binding half burgundy sheepskin wedges, back with five nerves adorned with boxes and black threads with traces of friction, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, scratches on the corners, blankets and back preserved. Copy almost freckle-free. About Charles Baudelaire, Ernest Renan, Gustave Flaubert, Hippolyte Taine and Stendhal. Handwritten mention "Mr Anatole France" hand Paul Bourget at the foot of the first cover. Precious autograph signed by Paul Bourget at Anatole France.