Alfred de VIGNY.
Cinq-Mars, ou une conjuration sous Louis XIII. Paris, Urbain Canel, 1826.
2 volumes in-8: blue half-maroquin with corners, smooth spines decorated, entirely untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Cuzin).
First edition.
Autograph letter signed on the false title of the first volume: to Monsieur de Lourdoueix offered by the author
Alfred de Vigny
If not courtier, at least strategic: writer and legitimist journalist, Jacques-
Honoré Lelarge, baron de Lourdoueix was indeed, since 1821, in charge of the department of Belles-Lettres at the Ministry of the Interior - before being appointed, one year after the publication of the novel - royal censor
The dedication, in a large handwriting, occupies the entire title page.
A copy with full margins, pleasantly bound by Cuzin, with covers and spine.
Spine soiled.
From the libraries of Laurent Mêeus and Louis de Sadeleer, with ex-libris.