636 - DE COSTER, Charles The Legend and the Heroic, Joyful, and Glorious Adventures of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere. Illustrated with thirty-two previously unpublished etchings. Second edition. Paris; Brussels: Librairie Internationale; Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1869. In-4° (slight fading of certain etchings despite the watermarks). Garnet half-maroquin binding with corners signed “Semet et Plumelle,” marbled paper covers edged with a double gilt line, spine with gilt fleurons, gilt title on endpapers, cover preserved. Second edition, more sought-after for its 32 etchings (including the title page incl.), including 3 by Rops and 2 by the same artist in collaboration with Louis Artan (for “Plaintive biestelette”) and E. Schampheleer (for the beast [Weerwolf]), that is, 17 more than in the first edition. Distinguishing features of our copy: the notation “Second edition” on the title page, - typeface on the half-title page (the stem of the “a” in “La légende” is straight, the “A” in “Au pays” begins with a loop, the reverse side bears the printer’s name Poupart-Davyl and the “a” in Poupart is missing) and on the title page (the initial “A”s, the italic “N”s, and “R”s are adorned with a loop), - featuring the woodcut placed at the beginning of Bubulus Bubb’s preface, depicting a wise owl (as in the original 1867 edition), - p. 480 does not bear the publisher’s mark. For example, the plates are printed on tinted laid paper. Rops ref.: Exsteens 468, 470, and 469. - Rouir 854, 860, 861, 859, and 601.