DESJARDINS (Albert). Collection of plays. Beauvais, Paris, [1856]-1865. - 11 pamphlets bound in one volume in-8, brown morocco, two cold filets on the boards, cold EP figure in the center of the first board, spine decorated with cold filets, gilt border inside, gilt edges (period binding). Interesting collection of rare texts, mainly plays, attributed to Albert Desjardins (1838-1897), moralist, professor at the Faculty of Law in Paris, member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. They were mostly printed in Beauvais by Pierre-Achille Desjardins. They are occasional pieces or texts certainly published privately and not put in the market for the most part. Includes : - Pieces of verse read at the Saint-Charlemagne banquet of the Lycée impérial Louis-Le-Grand, February 2, 1856. S.l., [1856]. - (1 f.), 8 pp. (1 blank f.). Includes two pieces in verse, the first in Latin signed J. de Chantepie, the second in French by Desjardins. - Mieux vaut tard que jamais. Proverb in two acts and in prose. Beauvais : Achille Desjardins' printing house, 1858. - 39 pp. - A ball in Coutances. Beauvais: Achille Desjardins printing house, n.d. - 38 pp, (1 blank f.). A play in one act and in prose. - A vingt ans. Beauvais : Achille Desjardins printing house, 1860. - 23 pp. One-act play in verse. - Consolation. Beauvais : Achille Desjardins' printing house, 1862. - 18 pp, (1 blank f.). A one-act play in verse. - L'École des tuteurs. Beauvais: Achille Desjardins printing office, 1863. - 51 pp. Play in two acts and in verse. - Les Deux chrétiennes. Beauvais : Achille Desjardins printing house, 1861. - 21 pp, (1 f.). A play in one act and in verse. - Un duel à Vichy. Beauvais: Achille Desjardins printing house, 1863. - 32 pp. One-act play in prose. - Corinne et Pindare. Beauvais: Achille Desjardins' printing office, 1860. - 16 pp. A one-act play in verse. - Après comme avant. S.l. n.d. - 16 pp. A one-act play in verse. - Farewell baskets, harvest is done. Beauvais : Achille Desjardins printing house, 1865. - 29 pp, (1 blank f.). A one-act play in verse. - De l'histoire critique des lettres. Paris: Aug. Durand (Achille Desjardins' printing office in Beauvais), 1865. - 40 pp. Beautiful copy in full contemporary morocco, made for Madame Ernest Persil. It bears this autograph dispatch signed by the author on the first white cover: "to Mrs. Ernest Persil .. respectful homage and testimony // of deep affection // Albert Desjardins" Some wear and tear to the binding, not serious.