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LECONTE DE LISLE. Poemes barbares.

Paris. Alphonse Lemerre, [s.d., c.1890s]
[6], 368pp, [2]. With a half-title.

[Bound uniformly with:] LECONTE DE LISLE. Derniers poemes. Paris. Alphonse Lemerre, [s.d., c.1890s]. [8], 315pp, [1]. With a half-title.

12mo. Attractively bound by P. Affolter in contemporary red half-morocco, marbled boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-pieces, spine richly gilt. Very slight shelf-wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.
Two collections of poems by famed French poet of the Parnassian movement Charles Marie Rene Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894), elaborately bound by venerable Parisian binder of the belle epoque Paul Affolter (fl. 1880-1929).
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 17438