E. Laurent|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1834|6.50 x 11.50 cm|relié
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New edition. Binding half shagreen red corners, back with five nerves set with golden dots and adorned with double richly decorated gilded boxes, traces of friction on the joints, framing of gilt fillets on marble paper plates, guards and contreplats of paper à la bowl, golden head, three blunt corners. Signed autograph of Sainte-Beuve to the historian R (egis) of Chantelauze in Latin: "Amico R. of Chantelauze Juvenilia senere non tamen preniteus" of which here is the translation in French: "the youth does not however suffer to grow old. "