Poésies de Madame Desbordes Valmore

First collected edition with some parts in first edition. Illustrated with two engraved and repeated titles and 4 out-of-text figures engraved on copper by Frilley, Cousin and Durand after Tony Johannot, Pujol, Devéria and Henri Monnier, on China paper laid down. Another edition by the same publisher in 3 volumes in-12, with unpublished pieces occupying the entirety of the third volume.
Contemporary half-glazed cherry red calf binding. Spine with false flat raised bands decorated with a large central blind stamp, with 2 compartments with multiple frames. Black glazed calf title and volume labels. Scattered foxing, one gathering browned pp. 250 to 256 in volume 1. A wide brown stain in margins of the last leaves of table in volume 2. The first leaves of both volumes with dry moisture traces in top margin. 3 corners slightly bumped. Leaf 15 in volume I shorter in right margin. Traces of rubbing at head.
Handsome copy in a strictly contemporary binding.
"This first, beautiful and excellent collected edition of the poetical works, presenting many unpublished poems, is preferred by most collectors of first editions." Clouzot (Guide du bibliophile français, XIXe siècle).