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VIGNY Alfred de (1797-1863)

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VIGNY Alfred de (1797-1863)
La maison du Berger. Poem
Paris, Imprimerie de H. Fournier et Cie, 1844. Large in-8 (220 x 140 mm), [3 bl. ff.], 16 pp, [3 bl. ff.]. Full midnight blue long-grained morocco, boards decorated with six gilt fillets in frames with irons at the corners, four-ribbed spine titled and decorated with gilt motifs, large gilt lace inside, gilt edges, green dummy cover with calligraphic title, slipcase (René Aussourd).
Rare first edition, printed separately in a small number of the Revue des Deux
Mondes. The false title has not been preserved.
MAGNIFICENTLY BINDED EXAMPLE.
PROVENANCE Libraries Lucien-Graux (cat., V, 195, n°278, with ex-libris) and Daniel
Sickles (cat., XIV, 1993, n° 6076).
(Restorations and slight lack of paper on the front cover| covers slightly damaged, edges slightly rubbed).