Les contes ou les nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis de Bonaventure des Periers, valet de chambre de la reine de Navarre, avec un choix des anciennes notes de Bernard de Lamonnoye et de Saint-Hyacinthe

Revised and expanded edition by Paul-Louis Jacob and enhanced with an original literary notice by Charles Nodier, one of the rare copies printed on Dutch laid paper.

Half red morocco binding with corners, spine with four fine raised bands set with gilt garlands decorated with gilt compartments adorned in the grotesque style, triple black fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, elegant contemporary binding signed by Lebrun. A trace of a bookplate cleanly removed from one pastedown.

Rare and handsome copy beautifully bound.