458 - ASSELINEAU (Charles). Miscellany from a Small Romantic Library. An Anecdotal and Picturesque Bibliography of First Editions of the Works of Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Petrus Borel, Alfred de Vigny, Prosper Mérimée, etc., etc., etc. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece by Célestin Nanteuil and verses by Théodore de Banville and Charles Baudelaire. Paris, René Pincebourde, 1866. In-8, red long-grain half-maroquin with corner pieces, ribbed spine, title label in black morocco, date at the tail, gilt fillet, gilt head, marbled cover with title labels on the front and spine preserved, in a box with flaps (M. Blin). Ex-libris bearing the initials “CB,” illustrated with a woodcock.

ASSELINEAU (Charles). Miscellany from a Small Romantic Library. An Anecdotal and Picturesque Bibliography of First Editions of the Works of Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Petrus Borel, Alfred de Vigny, Prosper Mérimée, etc., etc., etc. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece by Célestin Nanteuil and verses by Théodore de Banville and Charles Baudelaire. Paris, René Pincebourde, 1866. In-8, red long-grain half-maroquin with corner pieces, ribbed spine, title label in black morocco, date at the tail, gilt fillet, gilt head, marbled cover with title labels on the front and spine preserved, in a box with flaps (M. Blin). Ex-libris bearing the initials “CB,” illustrated with a woodcock. First edition printed in a run of 381 copies; one of the 300 unnumbered copies on laid paper. (Vicaire I, 127.) A few rare foxing spots. A fine copy bearing this later handwritten note in pencil on the half-title page (unfortunately unverifiable): "This book comes from Mr. Ancelle, to whom it may [underlined] have been bequeathed by Baudelaire’s mother (as were the other books that belonged to Baudelaire)[…]". Handwritten notes in pencil on the endpaper (in an unidentified hand, but not Baudelaire’s).