142 - PELLICO (Silvio). *My Prisons*, followed by *The Duties of Men*, a new translation by Count H. de Messey, revised by Viscount Alban de Villeneuve, with a biographical and literary note on Silvio Pellico and his works by M. V. Philipon de la Madelaine. Paris, Delloye; Garnier, 1844. Large 8vo, dark blue shagreen, decorated ribbed spine, framed with gold thread and blind-stamped borders, and gold and blind-stamped decorative motifs on the covers, internal perforation, gilt edges. (Contemporary binding).

PELLICO (Silvio). *My Prisons*, followed by *The Duties of Men*, a new translation by Count H. de Messey, revised by Viscount Alban de Villeneuve, with a biographical and literary note on Silvio Pellico and his works by M. V. Philipon de la Madelaine. Paris, Delloye; Garnier, 1844. Large 8vo, dark blue shagreen, decorated ribbed spine, framed with gold thread and blind-stamped borders, and gold and blind-stamped decorative motifs on the covers, internal perforation, gilt edges. (Contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION. Portrait, frontispiece, and numerous vignettes in the text engraved on steel (some on wood), based notably on works by Daubigny, Steinheil, and Gérard-Séguin. “One of the most beautiful illustrated books of the nineteenth century (Carteret, III, p. 460) ,” considered one of the masterpieces of steel engraving from the Romantic era, on par with *Chants et chansons populaires de la France* and *La Peau de chagrin* (1838), all three published by Delloye. A VERY BEAUTIFUL COPY IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING. (See illustration on p. 102)