Pierre-Jean de Béranger - Œuvres complètes [reliure signée Champs-Stroobants

BERANGER (Pierre-Jean de) Complete Works. Paris, at Perrotin, 1847. 2 volumes in-8 (24 x 15 cm), half morocco blue night with grain (binding of the period signed Champs-Stroobants sr), smooth spine nicely ornamented, gilt top, ex libris, covers and spine preserved, [4]-xl-411-[1] ; [4]-401-[1] pages (complete). Some small rubbing to the binding. Very good overall condition with no foxing. New edition and first printing of the fine romantic illustrations. The most complete edition of Béranger’s songs and the last published during his lifetime. It is adorned with a portrait frontispiece, a facsimile, and 52 plates hors texte engraved on steel after drawings by Charlet, Lemud, Johannot, Daubigny, Pauquet, Jacques, Lange, Penguilly, Rudder and Raffet. PROVENANCE: From the library of Henri Bonasse with bookplate Beautiful copy in a magnificent binding.

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