Illustrated edition with 3 out-of-text engravings. Publisher's signed romantic black cloth binding by Lenègre, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt and polychrome ornamentation, covers with frames of fillets and arabesques in blind, front cover enhanced with gilt and polychrome architectural decoration, large gilt and polychrome ornament on lower cover, edges gilt. Some stains on covers, small lacks of cloth at foot, occasional foxing. Handsome copy of this collection of moral tales in its romantic cloth binding.