Ouevres De Jacques-Henri-Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Hardcover. Large 8vo. Three-quarter green leather and marbled boards; raised bands; gilt-ornamented spine; spine title coffer in red with lettering gilt; new endpapers. 786 pp. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates, including one map, and frontispiece engraving of the author. Edited, with an introduction, by L. Aime-Martin. Extremities rubbed, with some shelf-wear, and small scuff to top board; head of spine slightly rubbed, and one leather corner slightly scuffed; red spine coffer a bit faded; endpaper split over front hinge but very firm; and, apart form the usual foxing to prelims and plate margins, interior is otherwise unbelievably bright & clean, as are the actual plate images. The works of one of France’s most celebrated Romantic writers, complete in one volume, including his famous “Paul et Virginie”. Text in French.