Les soeurs des anges. La fille de Jephté - La samaritaine - Sainte Dorothée

First edition.
Full bottle green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with double blind-stamped compartments, double gilt fillets at head and foot, minor rubbing to joints, gilt rolls on headcaps, gilt arabesques and allegorical motif on boards, gilt fillet on leading edges, lower corners slightly bumped without significance, gilt inner dentelles on pastedowns, cream watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, elegant unsigned binding.
Work illustrated with 3 engraved plates.
Some minor foxing.
Rare.