Valérie

New edition.
Contemporary full blue morocco binding, spine with five false raised bands richly decorated with compartments, fleurons, fillets and gilt stippling, quintuple fillets and gilt fleurons framing the covers, morocco doublures in green framed with twelve gilt fillets and blind tooling, gilt fillet on the edges, all edges gilt. Binding signed by Charles Ottmann, bookbinder of Strasbourg origin who married the daughter of bookbinder Duplanil fils and practiced in Paris from approximately 1835 to 1857.
Three corners slightly bumped, otherwise handsome copy. Light foxing on the title and a few leaves.
This epistolary novel is the most famous work of Madame de Krüdener, Russian woman of letters born in Riga in 1764 and died in Crimea in 1824. It first appeared in 1804.
From the library of Fernand Vandérem (1864-1939), with his bookplate (1939, no.362).
Armorial engraved bookplate of the Busquet library, laid down; small monogrammed stamp HP in red ink.