GONCOURT (Edmond and Jules). - Lot 302

GONCOURT (Edmond and Jules). Intimate portraits of the eighteenth century. Études nouvelles d'après les lettres autographes et les documents inédits. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1878. - In-12, white half parchment with corners, smooth spine, untrimmed (contemporary binding). First Charpentier edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. Copy of the lawyer and bibliophile Alidor Delzant (1848-1905), friend, secretary and executor of the Goncourt brothers. It bears his bookplate and this autograph letter signed by the author on the false title: "à Alidor Delzant // Edmond de Goncourt." A good copy, enriched at the end with a newspaper article by Paul de Saint-Victor, referring in part to the work. Spine soiled. Provenance: Alidor Delzant, with consignment from the author and bookplate.