MUSSET, Alfred de. OEuvres complètes. Edition with 28 engrav - Lot 192

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MUSSET, Alfred de. OEuvres complètes. Edition with 28 engrav - Lot 192
MUSSET, Alfred de. OEuvres complètes. Edition with 28 engravings after drawings by Bida. Paris, Édition Charpentier - L. Hébert, 1888. 11 vol. in-8, half-brown morocco, spines with 4 faux-nerfs, gilt and cold-stamped fillets, gilt title and tomaison, speckled edges. Contemporary binding. Approx. 400 pages per volume, 28 engraved plates after Bida, 1 portrait of the author engraved by Flameng after Landelle in the frontispiece of the posthumous works, 1 portrait of Paul de Musset engraved by Dubouchet and 1 engraved plate after a drawing by Émile Bayard, all under an hors-texte serpente. Slight rubbing, some foxing, mainly in the margins. Remarkable edition of Alfred de Musset's complete works, decorated with 28 finely engraved compositions after Alexandre Bida, a portrait of the author engraved by Flameng after the original by Landelle in the frontispiece of the OEuvres posthumes, a portrait of Paul de Musset engraved by Dubouchet and an engraved plate after a drawing by Émile Bayard for the biography volume. Complete set in 11 volumes, composed as follows: Volumes 1 and 2: Poésies. Volumes 3, 4 and 5: Comedies. Volumes 6 and 7: Nouvelles et Contes. Volume 8: La Confession d'un enfant du siècle. Volume 9: Mélanges de littérature et de critique. Volume 10: Posthumous works. Volume 11: Biography of Alfred de Musset by Paul de Musset. A very fine, identically produced set.
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