Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri.

folio (466 x 300mm.), large paper copy, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, 6 engraved plates colour-printed by Langlois (the plates after Lafitte, Prudhon, Moreau and others), list of 55 subscribers to this edition at end, later red straight-grained morocco-backed boards, flat spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges, matching slipcase, frontispiece somewhat foxed, other occasional light foxing, boards and slipcase slightly rubbed

Georges Wendling, morocco booklabel

Cohen-De Ricci 933

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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The list of subscribers states that only 4 copies in folio and with coloured plates were distributed, to Prince Joseph Bonaparte, Tsar Alexander I, the Tsarina, and the Tsar's mother. The rest of the edition was produced in quarto. There is no evidence in this copy of any of these provenances. 

For J.-F. Lesueur's opera based on Paul et Virginie, please see Lot 62.