494 - HEREDIA (José-Maria de). *Les Trophées*. Paris: Lemerre, 1893. Small quarto (210 x 138 mm), [4]-IV-214-[1] pp. Jansenist binding in royal blue morocco, spine with five pinched raised bands, gilt title, date at the tail, turquoise morocco lining, gray-blue silk endpapers, cover and spine preserved, in a box with flaps (H. Alix).

HEREDIA (José-Maria de). *Les Trophées*. Paris: Lemerre, 1893. Small quarto (210 x 138 mm), [4]-IV-214-[1] pp. Jansenist binding in royal blue morocco, spine with five pinched raised bands, gilt title, date at the tail, turquoise morocco lining, gray-blue silk endpapers, cover and spine preserved, in a box with flaps (H. Alix). First edition (following an extremely rare, non-commercial print run of 10 copies reserved for the jury of the Académie française), first commercial printing (prior to the addition on p. 196, between the 4th and 5th lines of the following two lines of verse: "On a brave black-maned stallion that snorts / And prances, shaking his bit white with foam"). Title printed in red and black. Spine faded with some scuffing; otherwise a very fine copy printed on beautiful vellum paper, in a binding signed by Alix, enriched with a handwritten letter from the author, unsigned, [January 27, 1887], 1 p. in-12 giving corrections to a sonnet (“[…] I hope your readers will take as much pleasure in reading this sonnet as I did in writing it […]”). (Vicaire IV, 72.)