GALLERY OF SHAKESPEARE'S WIVES. Collection of forty-five portraits engraved by London's leading artists. Enriched with critical and literary notes. Paris, H. Delloye, s.d. [1838]. Large in-8, red half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed and finely decorated with small gilt irons on a stippled background, untrimmed, ornamented covers and spine (V. Champs). First edition of this handsome romantic illustrated work, with a title-frontispiece and 45 out-of-text portraits, all finely steel-engraved by Herbert, Jenkins, Stephanof, Meadows, Hayter, Fields, Bostock and others. The notes were written by Louise Colet, George Sand, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Casimir Delavigne, Philarète Chasles, Frédéric Soulié, etc. A very fine copy, wide-margined and very fresh, complete with cover and prospectus. From the Albert-Louis Natural library (2009, n°183), with bookplate. Carteret, III, 228 - Lachèvre, Keepsakes, I, 247.