Le Pléiade. Ballads, Fabliaux, Nouvelles et Legends.

HOMERE, Veda-Vyasa.

$6,500.00

Item Number: 123046

Paris: L. Curmer, 1842.

First edition of this collection which Carteret considers to be one of the most important illustrated books of the 19th century. Octavo, elaborately bound in full red morocco with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling and stamping to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, elaborately decorated green morocco doublures, hand-stitched patterned endpapers, all edges gilt with intricate botanical carvings, illustrated with eleven frontispiece titles by Trimolet, Charles Jacque, Penguilly, etc., and numerous vignettes throughout the text. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.

"This collection of ten short narratives, mostly Gothic or exotic, from the literatures of several countries is one of the most charming books of the Romantic period" (Ray).