[POEMS, TALES & FABLES]. Set of 3 Volumes. - Lot 65

[POEMS, TALES & FABLES]. Set of 3 Volumes. National POEMS of the French Revolution, or a complete collection of songs, hymns, couplets, odes, and patriotic songs, illustrated with eight beautiful steel engravings, including one as a frontispiece, based on drawings by Mr. Delalaisse. Accompanied by a Republican calendar at the end of the volume. Paris, Michel Fils Aîné and Bailly, 1836, in-8, half-leather binding, smooth spine with decorative lettering and title. The engravings depict: Charles IX; The Altar of the Fatherland; La Marseillaise; The Song of Departure; The Death of Desaix; The Freed Slave; Bonaparte in Toulon; and The Warsaw Woman. Poems in Praise of the Revolution by Lebrun, Chénier, Desforges, La Harpe, Parny, Rousseau, etc., and Rouget de l’Isle for “La Marseillaise.” COPPÉE, François. Twenty New Tales, Paris: Lemerre, 1883, in-12, half-leather binding, spine with raised bands, decorated and featuring a title label, upper edge marbled. Author’s autograph dedication to Paul Dalloz on the half-title page. FLORIAN. Fables, followed by the Poems of Ruth and Tobias and other Poems of Galatea and Estelle, Reflections on Our Comic Authors, Letters and the Theater, Mirtil and Chloe, and a Selection of Fables by Lamotte; a Note on Florian by Boissy d’Anglas, Librairie de Paris-Firmin Didot et Cie, undated, 12mo, half-leather binding, decorated ribbed spine, title labels, volume number, and marbled edges. Signs of wear, scuffing, stains, and minor losses. Items may be picked up on Thursday, December 3, 2026, by appointment, in Paris’s 15th arrondissement (Metro: Pasteur). [The exact address will be provided after full payment of the invoice, when the appointment is scheduled]

Estimate:£41.74

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