GAUTIER Théophile. La Peau de Tigre. Paris, Hippolyte Souverain, 1852; 3 vol. in-8 of 307 pp; 307 pp; 312 pp, contemporary bindings in midnight blue half morocco, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, gilt heads, untrimmed. Very uncommon collective first edition. Collection of sixteen short stories, playlets and articles, including La Mille et deuxième nuit, Le Pavillon sur l'eau, La Tauromachie, La Pipe d'opium, etc. Some faint foxing, otherwise a very fine copy in elegant if simple bindings. Carteret, Le Trésor du bibliophile, I, 330; Clouzot, p. 128: "uncommon".