four old books lined up in a row on a table
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6 works: - TARDIEU DE SAINT-GERMAIN (Jules). *Pour une épingle*. A legend. Followed by *La Feuille de Coudrier*. Paris, Lefèvre, (1863); large 8vo. 2ff.–316pp.–12 plates. Red half-shagreen, faux raised bands, cold-stamped panels and gilt fillets, quatrefoil compartments, gilt edges. (Contemporary binding). – A fresh copy. Only the endpapers are yellowed. First illustrated edition, printed on heavy paper. 12 plates engraved by Descaves after Pauquet. (Vicaire VII, 752). - CHEVIGNE (Count of). Tales of Reims. Drawings by M. E. Meissonier. Eighth edition. Paris, Libr. de l’Académie des Bibliophiles, 1868, in-8, 2ff.–398pp.– Portrait. Green half-maroquin, corners, ribbed spine decorated with panels and gilded ornamentation, gilt head, untrimmed. (Contemporary binding). – Well bound. Spine slightly faded, some foxing. 56 tales in verse. Numerous woodcut vignettes after Meissonier and Foulquier. Followed by: ‘Opinion of the newspapers on the Contes Rémois’ (88 pp.). - SAINT-PIERRE (J.-H. Bernardin de) - [BERTALL]. Paul and Virginie. Illustrated with 100 vignettes by Bertall. Preceded by a philosophical and literary essay by d’Albanès. Paris, Havard, 1845, small 8vo, 164 pages in total. Light-coloured half-calf, faux raised bands, cold-stamped fillets. (Contemporary binding). – Spine faded, paper slightly yellowed. (Bibliothèque illustrée collection). – PELLISSIER (Georges). Essays on Contemporary Literature. Paris, Lecène, Oudin, 1893, 12mo, 2ff.–391 pages–1f. Bound in khaki half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt florets between the ribs, gilt head, trimmed. (Binding by Champs). - A finely bound copy. - SCRIBE (Eugène). Proverbs and Short Stories. New edition. Paris, Gosselin, 1840, in-12, 2ff.–316pp.–1f. Bound in olive-coloured glossy half-calf, ribbed spine, panels with interlacing gilt fillets. (Contemporary binding). - Well bound. - HEGUIN DE GUERLE (Ch.). French Poetics, or Rules for Works in Verse. Paris, Vve Maire-Nyon, 1840, in-12, Title page–312 pp. Bound in light-coloured half-calf, with faux raised bands, title label and gilt fillets. (Contemporary binding). – Slight foxing.
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