ROSTAND (Edmond). L'Aiglon. Drama in six acts, in verse. First performed at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, 15 March 1900. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900. - In-8, 212 x 136: (5 ff.), 262 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover. White morocco, boards decorated with gilt fillets and roulettes forming rectangular compartments on the edges, crowned N and crowned eagle gilt at the corners, ornate ribbed spine, gilt fillets, roulette and fleurons inside, gilt rosette at the corners, light blue tabis linings and endpapers, double guards, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved, white morocco spine folder and flap bands, edged slipcase (Ch. Meunier 1902). First edition of Rostand's second masterpiece, after Cyrano de Bergerac, illustrated with a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as L'Aiglon by Louise Abbéma. One of 180 numbered copies on Japon paper, complete with the beautiful cover illustrated by René Lalique. A superb copy bound at the time by Charles Meunier. Spine of dust jacket browned. Provenance: Baron de Launoit, with bookplate.