Duc de SAINT-SIMON. Mémoires complets et authentiques sur le - Lot 204

Duc de SAINT-SIMON. Mémoires complets et authentiques sur le siècle de Louis XIV et la Régence collationnés sur le manuscrit original par M. Chéruel et précédés d'une notice par M. Sainte-Beuve de l'Académie française. Paris, Hachette, 1856-1858. 20 volumes in-8, red half-chagrin with corners, spines with 5 ornate nerves, gilt heads (period binding). Formel, 191. Chéruel's edition is, according to Sainte-Beuve, the first correct one, with the complete and definitive text. An engraved portrait by Colin after Fath, 2 out-of-text plans and 2 folding facsimiles. Copy enriched with 177 wood-engraved out-of-text portraits printed on Chine monté. This suite, normally comprising 180 plates, was published in 1855 or 1858 by Hachette and Bossange to decorate editions of Saint-Simon. Minor binding defects and a few scattered, but not serious, brown spots. From the Lesseure library, with its stamp on the endpapers.