BANVILLE (Théodore de).
Collection of five works:
- Complete poems. 1841-1854. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857; in-12, midnight blue half-chagrin with corners à la Bradel, smooth spine decorated with a gilt and mosaic floral design, untrimmed, gilt head, covers and spine kept (Champs). First collective edition, partly original.
A fine copy, complete with the engraved frontispiece; dispatch from the author to Monsieur
Patin.
- Paris and the new Louvre. Ode. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857.
Plaquette in-12, half dark blue calfskin with corners, untrimmed, gilt head, covers and spine kept (Semet & Plumelle). First edition, printed at 400 copies on Hollande laid paper.
- La Mer de Nice. Letters to a friend. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861; in-12, half leather La Vallière with corners, spine ribbed, covers and spine preserved (Stroobants).
First edition.
- Petit traité de poésie française. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Écho de la Sorbonne, undated [1872]; in-12, brown half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, untrimmed, gilt head, covers and spine retained (Alfred Farez). Uncommon first edition. Nice copy. Ex-libris J. Le Roy.
- Sonnailles et clochettes. Poésies nouvelles. Paris, Charpentier, 1890; in- 12, paperback, in a folder, case. First edition, decorated in frontispiece with a drawing by Rochegrosse. One of 25 on Hollande laid paper (second large paper).
