Description

Fifth edition and first in-8 edition, corrected by the author, of his first work of fiction.
THE ONLY EXEMPLAIRE ON CHINESE cited by Vicaire, reserved for Jules Janin, with his bookplate and signature on the first white endpaper.

This A little literary fun published without an author's name in 1829 - a pastiche of frenzy seen as a parody of the Last Day of a Condemned Man -  is one of the most important works of Romanticism.
Luxurious, richly decorated binding by Koehler.
Vicar IV, 519

A fine copy of the first edition illustrated by Tony Johannot is enclosed. :
The dead donkeyErnest Bourdin, 1842. Large in-8° (268 x 170 mm). Contemporary green half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with gold roulettes and fillets, gilt title, mottled paper boards with gold double fillet, gilt edges. Corners rubbed, foxing on some of the hors-texte plates.
First illustrated edition, with 12 hors-texte wood-engraved plates by Hébert after Tony Johannot, a steel-engraved portrait of Jules Janin by Revel after Tony Johannot, and in-text wood-engraved vignettes (Vicaire IV, 520).