164 - BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE (Jacques-Henri).

BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE (Jacques-Henri). • Paul and Virginie. •• The Indian Cottage. Paris, L. Curmer, 1838. In-4°, midnight blue half-maroquin with long grain and corner pieces, decorated ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed (late 19th-century pastiche binding). FIRST PRINTING with the title page bearing the address “25, rue Sainte-Anne,” and without the portrait of Madame Curmer (known as “La bonne femme”) on p. 418, which had not been printed in the very first copies. 37 engraved plates on applied China paper, including a frontispiece title page, a colored map of “Ile de France” by DYONNET after DUFOUR, seven portraits after JOHANNOT, LAFITTE, and MEISSONIER, and 28 plates by FRANÇAIS, HUET, ISABEY, JOHANNOT, MARVILLE, MEISSONIER, STEINHEIL…, with captioned scrolls; 450 vignettes in the text. Spine worn, but the copy is free of foxing. “The pearl of 19th-century illustrated books” (Brivois, 394); Vicaire, VII, 42–68.