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Chansons de P.J. Beranger, précédées d'une notice sur l'auteur et d'un essai sur ses poésies par M. P. F. Tissot.
ORIGINAL COLLECTIVE EDITION des chansons de Béranger, complete with volume 4 of political and erotic songs published in Brussels to complement the edition in the same format printed in France. The last volume, New and old songs, is dedicated to M. Lucien Bonaparte.
The volumes contain 97 engravings, including a portrait of the author on the frontispiece of the first volume, after Grenier, Deveria, Johannot, Charlet, Bellangé, Fragonnard, Isaley, Adam, Granville, Boulanger, Monnier, Scheffer, Godin, Vernet, Decamps, Cami, Vigneron, Delacroix, Bailly, Dupré, Champion, Roqueplan, Bonnington, Warren, Lemaire, Saint-Fore, St Eve, D.C., Raffet, Gigoux.
A very fine copy, perfectly bound in the period by Simier, the King's bookbinder, in full aubergine calf.
Bound in contemporary style by Simier, the King's bookbinder, at the foot of volumes I and V, in full purplish calf, spine ribbed and decorated with frieze, framing and fillets, framing and fleurons on the covers, spine flaps edged and decorated with frieze, fillets on the edges, all edges gilt.
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