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Eighth edition preceded by Reflections on Truth in Art.
SEND SELF-EMPLOYMENT signed :
"to M. Avenel as a token of friendship, Alfred de Vigny".
According to Jean-Pierre Lassallewhen the first edition of Cinq-MarsVigny had expressly asked the publisher Urbain Canel to send one of the large paper copies to Denis Avenel.
Denis Avenel (1782-1875), a critic with the Revue de Paris, Encyclopaedic magazineat the Constitutional, at Universal Monitor, and Courrier français, was director of the Bibliothèque Saint Geneviève. His eight volumes of Letters, diplomatic instructions and state papers of Cardinal de Richelieupublished between 1853 and 1877.
Copy in contemporary binding.
Bound in contemporary chocolate brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt title, gilt head. Cover not preserved.