BOREL (Pétrus). Champavert. Immoral Tales. Paris, Eugène Ren - Lot 20

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BOREL (Pétrus). Champavert. Immoral Tales. Paris, Eugène Ren - Lot 20
BOREL (Pétrus). Champavert. Immoral Tales. Paris, Eugène Renduel, Publisher and Bookseller, 1833. In-8° Bradel, green half-maroquin with long grain and corner pieces, gold fillet edging the covers, decorated spine, original illustrated yellow cover preserved (E. Carayon). pp. FIRST EDITION of this collection of seven stories by Pétrus Borel, alias Le Lycanthrope. Cover and title page illustrated with a vignette engraved by GODARD after GIGOUX. From the Simone André Maurois library, with bookplate; trace of a wet stamp on the half-title page. Copy enhanced with a pasted engraved plate on China paper by Célestin NANTEUIL, “Dina la belle Juive.” Spine slightly faded; a few foxing spots. “An important and sought-after work” (Carteret, I, 140); Vicaire, I, 864.
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