Oeuvres complètes

Illustrated edition with 31 plates, including 6 portraits, 18 views, 2 maps and 6 music plates, initials, tailpieces, headpieces and numerous in-text vignettes. Handsome edition beautifully decorated with romantic motifs. Each title page with an in-text vignette.
Contemporary half blue glazed calf bindings with corners, smooth spines decorated with gilt romantic tools, gilt volume numbers and gilt friezes at foot, some headcaps slightly worn, marbled paper boards, one upper joint of volume 2 with a tear, two tears to lower corners of volume 10, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, labels pasted to versos of first boards and bibliophile stamps on half-title pages, contemporary romantic bindings. Scattered browning as usual, some pages with micro spotting. Traces of rubbing. Spines slightly faded. Some corners bumped.
Set established in elegant romantic bindings.
Contents: I. Les Destinées de la poésie. Premières méditations poétique. La Mort de Socrate; II. Nouvelles méditations poétiques. Le Dernier chant du Pèlerinage d'Harold. Épîtres; III-IV. Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. Pièces diverses; V-VIII. Voyages en Orient; IX-X. Jocelyn. The last 3 volumes which contain La chute d'un ange and Les recueillements poétiques published later are absent from our set as is often the case.