Extremely important edition, comprising a large number of works appearing here in their first edition. The complete set of these 27 volumes is rare (Clouzot). The titles present in first edition are: Mattea, Lettres d’un Voyageur, La Dernière Aldini, Les Maîtres mosaïstes, L’Uscoque, Spiridion, Les Sept Cordes de la lyre, Gabriel, Pauline, and Un hiver à Majorque.
Illustrated with a portrait of the author at the head of the first volume.
Bound in contemporary half brown sheep, spines uniformly faded, with four raised bands decorated with double gilt panels, double gilt fillets at head and foot, marbled-paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, a few very lightly rubbed corners, contemporary bindings. Some occasional foxing, a light dampstain affecting the final leaves of the twenty-first volume.
A very rare complete set, in contemporary bindings.