Le Mérite des Femmes, Edition Nouvelle, Augmentée des Poésies Inédites

by French Binding, Gabriel-Marie-Jean-Baptiste Legouvé

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

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Engraved title with vignette, 12 engraved plates. viii, 2 , 405. 8vo. Contemporary French romantic binding of full black morocco, covers stamped in blind and gilt to panel design with central gilt-stamped medallion, spines with raised bands, compartments richly gilt or titled, signed at foot Jouis Janet , a.e.g. Slight rubbing to spine ends, contents foxed and browned. Early gift inscription on half-title, bookplates. Cf. Devauchelle II, p. 239. Item #316510

• Binding: Leather

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