VIGNY (Alfred de). Military servitude and greatness. Souvenirs de servitude militaire. Paris, Édouard Pelletan, 1897. 2 volumes in-4, dark brown morocco decorated with geometrical filleting on the boards and spines, ornate spine, morocco spine flaps decorated with 6 gilt fillets, green moiré satin lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine (Marius Michel). Edition illustrated with 135 woodcuts by Clément-Edouard Bellenger after drawings by Louis Dunki. Edition at 400 copies, this being one of the 30 first copies in quarto format, and among these one of the 13 on large Marais vellum (No. 24), containing a suite of all the engravings on Chine, enriched by a suite of all the engravings on Japon, not mentioned in the justification. A fine copy in an original binding signed by Marius Michel.