[CHEVIGNÉ]. - Lot 155

[CHEVIGNÉ]. Les Contes rémois. Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, Éditeurs, 1858. In-8°, blue morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges, blue morocco lining with wide frame of interlaced gilt fillets, slipcase (Cuzin). "Third edition Four portraits, including one of the author, one of Charles-Guillaume SOURDILLE de LA VALETTE and one of Léopold FLAMENG with his signature; and 40 woodcuts on chine collé, by Ernest MEISSONIER and Valentin FOULQUIER. One of 40 copies on hollande. ATTACHED: an 1858 L.A.S. from the author concerning this edition (4 pp.). From the libraries of Leo Tolstoy (with bookplate "Don du Comte L. N. Tolstoy"), and Hri Bordes, with bookplate. Russian wet stamp on verso of title. Spine slightly faded. "This admirably wood-engraved illustration of Les Contes rémois will remain as one of the most beautiful Romantic productions" (Carteret, III, 158). COPY FROM THE LEON TOLSTOY LIBRARY.