Poésies d'un passant

Second edition.
Half navy blue morocco-grained shagreen binding, lightened spine with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with the gilt paraph of the great bibliophile Roger de Cormenin repeated five times, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Provenance: from the library of Roger de Cormenin, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and also the intimate friend of Gustave Flaubert.
Handsome copy almost entirely free of foxing.