289 - VIGNY, Alfred de, and LE BLANT, Julien. Military Servitude and Grandeur.

VIGNY, Alfred de, and LE BLANT, Julien. Military Servitude and Grandeur. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, Jouaust, 1885. In-8 (20.5 x 13 cm), full red morocco, decorated spine, gold fillets framing the covers, fillets on the edges. Wide gold lace framing the inside covers, bookbinder’s name at the bottom of the front inside cover. Edges gilt on endpapers. Covers and spine intact. VII and 287 pp. Slight stain on the upper cover. Deluxe edition, illustrated with a portrait of the author and three inset plates etched by Champollion after drawings by Julien Le Blant. A limited edition comprising 150 copies, including 10 on Japanese paper in three states, 20 on Chinese paper, 20 on Whatman paper with double proofs, and 100 on Holland paper in sheet form. This uncollated copy is on fine vellum paper. A classic work that brings together three short stories: “Laurette, or The Red Seal,” “The Vigil at Vincennes,” and “The Life and Death of Captain Renaud, or The Reed Cane.” A fine copy printed on vellum, untrimmed, bound in a lovely binding by Pétrus Ruban. Pétrus Ruban was one of the great bookbinders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Villefranche-sur-Saône in 1851, he practiced in Paris from 1879 to 1910; he passed away in Neuilly on April 21, 1929, at the age of 79. He had set up his first workshop at 16 Rue Dauphine before moving it to 9 Rue de Savoie in 1896.