'Collection des Dix': SOUVENIRS DE SERVITUDE ET GRANDEUR MILITAIRES, Tome Premier [avec des] Compositions de Albert Dawant, Eaux-Fortes de Luis Muller. / Tome Second [avec des] Compositions de Jean-Paul Laurens, Eaux-Fortes de Champollion et Decisy. - LIMITED LARGE-PAPER EDITION; 2 VOLUMES, COMPLETE.

ALFRED [VICTOR, COMTE] DE VIGNY (1797-1863; poet and early Leader of French Romanticism, Novelist and Playwright, Shakespeare-Translator; Author) / Albert DAWANT; Jean-Paul LAURENS (Artists) / Eugène-André CHAMPOLLION; Eugène DECISY; LUIS MULLER (Graveurs):

Published by Paris, Armand Magnier - Éditeur, 1898.

About this Item

I. Foretitlepage with justification on the verso, 1 sheet with xylographic frontispice-portrait, dedication-page to 'Laurette La Veillée de Vincennes Livre d'amateur' opposite on the next sheet, engraved frontispice-sheet signé ''chez Prouté'', illustrated (engraving) titlesheet printed in red and black; 170 pages, 3 specimen-sheets advertising the 2nd volume / II. Foretitlepage with justification on the verso, 1 sheet with xylographic frontispice-illustration, dedication-page to 'la Canne de Jonc Livre d'amateur' opposite on the next sheet, engraved frontispice-portrait 'A. de Vigny' signé 'Ed. Hédoin', illustrated (engraving) titlesheet printed in red and black; 144 (1) pages, 2 specimen-sheets. - Both volumes printed on strong 'Papier Vélin de cuve', with many engraved illustrations in the text and 12 intercalated engraved plates on varying large-papers. --- Publisher's illustrated softcovers, bound in strong red 3/4-morocco bindings with large leather-corners, colour-marbled endpapers and 2 blank flyleaves each at front and end of both volumes; large-8vo.(ca. 26 x 18 x 4 cm; ca. 2 kg.). *** FIRST EDITION OF THIS ILLUSTRATED VERSION, LEATHERBOUND ORIGINALS; #167 OF ''160 Exemplaires sur papier vélin de cuve, avec une seule suite des eaux-fortes'', numbered #140-#300 after 140 other large-paper copies; 2 VOLUMES COMPLETE. - Some engravings offsetting to the opposite or next page, minimal foxing; A BEAUTIFUL SET.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 'Collection des Dix': SOUVENIRS DE SERVITUDE ET GRANDEUR MILITAIRES, Tome Premier [avec des] Compositions de Albert Dawant, Eaux-Fortes de Luis Muller. / Tome Second [avec des] Compositions de Jean-Paul Laurens, Eaux-Fortes de Champollion et Decisy. - LIMITED LARGE-PAPER EDITION; 2 VOLUMES, COMPLETE.
• Publisher: Paris, Armand Magnier - Éditeur, 1898.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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