REGNIER (Mathurin). Oeuvres de Mathurin Regnier. Text Original, avec Notice, Varaintes & Glossaire par E. Courbet.1869

Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, Large 12mo (150 x 80 mm), xxviii, 306, [2]pp., ONE OF TWO COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM, etched frontispiece by Felix Bracquemond, foliated initials and head-pieces, some light spotting to half-title, marbled endpapers, superbly bound in later full blue morocco by Reimann/Dormont, triple gilt fillet border to covers, with gilt supralibros of Isidoro Fernandez added to centre of both covers, gilt spine compartments exquisitely tooled with small flowers and stars, gilt turn-ins and edges, joints lightly rubbed otherwise in fine condition. Good edition of the works of Mathurin Regnier (1573-1613), French satirical poet. This being number one of two copies printed on vellum in a total limitation of 171. Provenance: Jean de La Fontaine Toqué (bookplate); I. Fernandez (bookplate); purchased from Giraud, 1926 (pencil note to rear endpaper). Vicaire VI, 1002.