CHATEAUBRIAND (François René de).
Essai sur la littérature anglaise et Considérations sur le génie des hommes, des temps et des révolutions. Paris,
Charles Gosselin et Furne, 1836. 2 volumes in-8°, glazed midnight blue calf, boards entirely decorated with gilt filleting, fine cold-edged roulettes and a large fleuron motif in the centre, spines decorated, gilt edges (period binding).
ORIGINAL EDITION.
Smudges, but
A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE IN BLUE LEATHER WITH ROMANTIC DECORATION.
From the libraries of Janville, with watercoloured bookplate with double coat of arms on the flyleaf,
Adolphe des Saudrais, with handwritten mention of the time, and P. R. Méry, with bookplate.
Carteret, Romantiques, I, 163; Clouzot, 37.
