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CAZOTTE (Jacques)

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CAZOTTE (Jacques)

The Devil in Love, fantasy novel. Preceded by his life, his trial, and his prophecies and revelations by Gerard de Nerval. Paris, Léon Ganivet, 1845. In-8, midnight blue long-grain half-maroquin with corners, gold fillet, ornate back, smooth head, untrimmed, cover and back (Canape).
Edition given by Gérard de Nerval, whose preface is in the
original edition.

The illustration includes a portrait of the author engraved on steel, 6 figures out of text copied from those of the original edition, attributed to Moreau the Younger, and 200 woodcut vignettes of Édouard de Beaumont in the

text.

First

draw.

Nice copy bound in

romantic

taste

.

André Sciama and Étienne Beauvillain libraries.