503 - LECONTE de LISLE (Charles Marie Leconte, known as). The Complete Poems of Leconte de Lisle. Ancient Poems—Poems and Poetry. […] New Poems. Paris, Poulet-Malassis and de Broise, 1858. 8vo, dark blue half-shagreen, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt head (contemporary binding).

LECONTE de LISLE (Charles Marie Leconte, known as). The Complete Poems of Leconte de Lisle. Ancient Poems—Poems and Poetry. […] New Poems. Paris, Poulet-Malassis and de Broise, 1858. 8vo, dark blue half-shagreen, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt head (contemporary binding). Beautiful frontispiece drawn and etched by Louis Duvau. Publisher’s catalog not preserved. Original collected edition, bringing together the poet’s earlier collections and 11 new poems appearing here for the first time. A very fine copy, complete with the frontispiece—which is often missing—and enhanced here by a beautiful later ORIGINAL DRAWING (watercolor, ink, and graphite) from the Art Nouveau period, in a highly Symbolist style, added as a frontispiece (signature unidentified). Bookplate of M. and H. Hocquette. Bookplate bearing the initials “CB,” illustrated with a woodcock.