First edition. Binding half black shagreen, back with five nerves adorned with double black boxes, crown and initials gilded tail, black thread frames on black cardboard plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, all golden edges, corners slightly blunted , Contemporary binding. Autograph dedication dated and signed by Stéphen Liégeard to Colonel Pajol. A pale wetness in the heads of the first leaves, rare foxinges.