Vigny, Alfred de . - Servitude and military greatness. Souve - Lot 19

Vigny, Alfred de . - Servitude and military greatness. Souvenirs de servitude militaire. Paris, Éd. Pelletan, 1897. 2 volumes in-4 bound in green half-maroquin with corners, outlined with gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated with a Romantic-style floral decoration accompanied by Napoleonic attributes (eagle - Legion of Honor - bicorn, saber, palms and laurel wreath), author, title and head gilt, covers and spine preserved (V. Champs binding) - [2 ff.], 286 pp. ; [2 ff.], 218 pp.., [1 f.]. Illustrated with 51 compositions by L. Dunki engraved by Clément Bellenger. Edition of 350 copies, this one of 100 on vélin du Marais including a suite on chine of all the engravings (n° 101 nominative). Enriched copy with the publisher's catalog (8 pp. in-4) and the invitation on japon impérial for the exhibition of Dunki's original compositions for this work, as well as for the watercolors by D. Vierge for the "Aventures du dernier Abencérage" (12/01/-9/02/1898).