Oeuvres

Illustrated edition in first printing by Tony Johannot, with a frontispiece, an engraved title and 800 wood-engraved vignettes (headpieces, bandeaux, tailpieces). Notice by Sainte Beuve.
Contemporary half emerald green shagreen binding signed P. Pralon à Dijon at top of first endpaper. Smooth spine decorated with mirrored tooling connected by series of fillets. Boards covered with glazed green paper with relief motifs. Spine uniformly sunned. Traces of rubbing. Some rare and light foxing, but overall paper quite white, which is very rare for this edition which is most often found foxed and browned; however some signatures tinted.
Provenance: visiting card inserted in first volume: Vicomte de la Tour.
One of the finest books illustrated by Johannot, with Don Quixote and one of the gems of Romantic illustration.
"Very fine book, rare in handsome condition and justly highly esteemed, for its admirable illustration..." Carteret.