Axel

First edition on current paper.
Binding in the bradel half vellum vellum style, smooth back adorned with triple gilded boxes and decorated with angles of gilded florets, marbled paper plates, preserved covers, gilded head, corners blunt, contemporary binding.
Notes of a bibliophile covering all the guard compared to the first preserved cover plate.
Some foxinges mainly affecting the first and last leaflets, shadows, some spots on the handwritten letter.
Our copy is exceptionally enriched with a beautiful autograph letter, mounted on tab, 4 pages dated and signed by Louis de Grammont addressed to Villiers de l'Isle Adam in which he regrets that the writer of Axel has "fled the worries of the city "because against them" the countryside is your only asylum "and that the salons in which they participated both are" heartless without you "and" the house of Nina loses three quarters, not to say the five- sevenths of his charms ... "He encourages Villiers, in his exile," in his stay extramural "..." to bring him a tragedy altier, poignant, terrible and jester, where the grotesque elbows the scary,. .. a drama that finally cuts the whistle to the helpless and the envious ...