Oeuvres complètes d'Alfred de Musset avec lettre inédites, variantes, notes, index, fac-similé, notice biographique par son frère

Charming illustrated edition featuring, as the frontispiece to the first volume, a portrait of Alfred de Musset after the original painting by Charles Landelle, together with 28 drawings by Alexandre Bida; one of the numbered copies printed on laid paper.

Bound in full midnight-blue Russian morocco, spines with five raised bands gilt-tooled with garlands and decorated with gilt fillets and blind-stamped typographical ornaments, gilt rolls to the spine ends, gilt dates at the foot, a few joints slightly split at the head or tail, covers framed with quintuple gilt fillets, gilt armorial bearings stamped at the centres, red moiré silk endleaves and doublures, gilt dentelle border to the doublures, a few inner hinges split, subsequent marbled endpapers, gilt fillets to the edges of the boards, gilt top edges, an exceptionally elegant binding signed by Yseux.

Some occasional foxing.

This copy has been exceptionally extra-illustrated with 17 chine appliqué plates and 42 plates by Henri Pille engraved by Monziès, present in three states.

Provenance: from the library of Duke Agenor de Gramont (1851-1925), with his gilt arms stamped at the centres of the covers.

A fine copy, exceptionally enriched with 17 chine appliqué plates and 42 plates by Henri Pille engraved by Monziès in three states, attractively bound in full armorial morocco by Yseux, one of the most talented binders of the early twentieth century.