- Endpapers browned/ foxed; contents trifle foxed. Covers trifle rubbed along extremities.
Gautier, T. Le capitaine Fracasse. Ibid., F. Polo, n.d. (±1863), 396p., num. ills. by G. DORÉ, contemp. gilt hmor., 4to.
- Binding trifle rubbed along extremities.
ADDED: 3 others, all. w. hmor./ hleather bindings.
- Both vols. foxed. Bindings sl. rubbed; corners showing.
- Usual foxing. Both spines w. two mounted labels.
= Leblanc p.68 (correcting the number of plates and ills. to 377, instead of the 370 mentioned on the title-p.); Rius I, 587; Vicaire II, p.160.
- (Sl.) foxed. Sl. worn at extremities; spine-ends restored.
= From the library of H. DE LA FONTAINE VERWEY (his bookplate on upper pastedown). Leblanc p.71; Carteret III, p.155.
Dante Alighieri. l'Enfer. French transl. P.-A. Fiorentino. Ibid., idem, 1862, (4),IV,194,(1)p., woodengr. frontisp. portrait and 75 plates by G. DORÉ, orig. richly gilt cl., folio.
- (Sl.) foxed. Sl. worn at extremities; backstrip dam. (repaired).
= Text in French and Italian. Leblanc p.77f (ed. 1861): "Une des plus grandes entreprises que Gustave Doré ait conçue, étudiée et mûrie longtemps avant sa publication."
AND 1 other: (R.E. RASPE), The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (London, ±1870, num. (full-p.) woodengr. ills. by G. DORÉ, orig. gilt pict. cl., t.e.g., 4to. Frontcover sl. stained; backstrip dam.).
- Both vols. hinges strengthened; dedication on first free endpaper; (sl.) foxed. Both vols. binding worn/ dam.; vol.1 joints split(ting).
= First edition with the illustrations by Doré. Leblanc 206; Vicaire IV, p.905; Sander 413; Brivois 242; Bassy 45.