New edition of the French translation, the latter by Xavier Marmier and preceded by a notice of the translator. Contemporary binding in half black shagreen, back smoothes decorated with blind fillets and golden, golden tail frieze, friction marks on the back and a hooked tail, flat black cardboard, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, small rips on the cuts, contemporary binding. Precious autograph signed Xavier Marmier the Princess Murat: "To the Duchess of Elchingen, tribute translator". Copy virtually free of freckles.