Anthologie des poètes français du XIXe. siècle

First edition of this very famous anthology.
Contemporary half dark green shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons. Top edge gilt. Light traces of rubbing. Fine copy, very fresh.
Rich and numerous contributions including those by Arthur Rimbaud, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Pétrus Borel, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, André Chénier, François-René de Chateaubriand, Charles Nodier, Ulrich Guttinguer, Alphonse Daudet, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Léon Dierx, Théodore de Banville, Léon Cladel, Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Goudeau, Paul Verlaine, Guy de Maupassant, José Maria de Heredia, Stéphane Mallarmé, Eugène Vermersch, Charles Cros, Paul Arène, Laurent Tailhade, Émile Verhaeren, Francis Viélé-Griffin, Georges Rodenbach, Henri de Régnier, Jean Richepin, Maurice Rollinat, Sully-Prudhomme... 2 poems by Rimbaud are published for the first time, Le dormeur du val and Le buffet.
Handsome and rare complete set in four volumes.