STENDHAL. HISTORY OF PAINTING IN ITALY. Paris, P. Didot, 1817. 2 volumes in-8, half basane maroquinée terre de Sienne, spines decorated (contemporary binding). ONE OF THE VERY RARE COPIES Bearing the name of BEYLE on the titles (instead of B.A.A.) with the mention "Ex-auditeur au Conseil d'Etat". The only copy known for a long time to conform to this was that of Mérimée; only a dozen or so have since been found, and it has been concluded that Stendhal intended them for friends. In addition, the epigraph is different from the current copies of 6 verses in Italian and has the boxes in volume I (209-210) and in volume II (21, 22, 23); the 2 volumes include the two errata which are often missing (Escoffier n°271) (Cordier, 18-1). A copy, untrimmed, preserved in a pleasant contemporary half binding, a few brown spots; it belonged to Léon Olschki with his bookplate.