Paul and Virginie
Paris. Curmer, 48 rue de Richelieu, 1838.
In 4°. Publisher's half binding in green bronze morocco. Smooth spine decorated with gilt irons.
450 woodcut vignettes in text, 29 engravings by Tony Johannot on chine pastedown, captions on serpents, 7 engraved portraits. A colored map of the Ile de France.
Copy conforms to Carteret's "Trésor du Bibliophile romantique" III, pp. 532 - 547.
Copy complete with the "portrait de la bonne femme" [actually the portrait of Madame Curmer], last page of "La chaumière indienne", which is often missing.
The publisher's address is "rue de Richelieu", indicating one of the first copies of this edition [Most of this edition is addressed "25, rue Sainte Anne"].
Some unavoidable foxing.
Ryckebusch I, 694.
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