STENDHAL. LIFE OF ROSSINI, DECORATED WITH PORTRAITS OF ROSSINI AND MOZART. Paris, Auguste Boulland, 1824. 2 volumes in-8, bradel stiff vellum, covers and spine (later binding). ORIGINAL EDITION with engraved portraits of Rossini and Mozart, translated almost immediately in London and Leipzig. The biography of Rossini was for Stendhal a pretext to criticise the state of Italy after the fall of Napoleon. Copy entirely untrimmed, a few brown spots. (Escoffier n°510) (Cordier, 64-1). Provenance: Bibliothèque Paul Muret (ex-libris).