BOILEAU-DESPREAUX (Nicolas). Œuvres poétiques. Paris, Hachette, 1889. In-folio, plum morocco, double framed with a gilt fillet and a blue morocco listel edged with four gilt fillets, ornate spine, large inner framing of a gilt and mosaic frieze with plant decoration edged with grey morocco listels, blue morocco lining, burgundy moire endpapers, cover and spine, folder and slipcase (Mercier sr. de Cuzin). Edition illustrated with 23 plates and 6 vignettes in the text, including a frontispiece after Madeleine Lemaire, Gérôme, Bida, Merson, Français, Flameng, Hédouin, Laurens, Lechevalier-Chevignard. One of 50 copies on papier à la forme from the papeteries du Marais, with two states of the engravings, one on japon. Very beautiful lined binding by Mercier. From the library of Henri Beraldi (1935, IV, n° 25), with bookplate.