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Lot n° 138

LAMARTINE (Alphonse de)

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Raphaël. Pages from the twentieth year. Paris, Perrotin, Furne et Cie, 1849. In-8, midnight-blue long-grain half-maroquin with corners, edged with gilt fillet, untrimmed, cover and spine (Mercier sr de Cuzin). First edition. Book prospectus and publisher's catalog at end of volume. A very fine copy, elegantly bound. Handwritten notes in pencil in the margins, which a handwritten note on the last endpaper attributes to Sainte-Beuve. From the libraries of Paul de Villeboeuf (1963, no. 134), Daniel Sicklès (X, 1991, no. 3955; described in green half-maroquin), and Robert and Jeanne Percheron (bookplate).