ROSTAND (Edmond). - Lot 74

ROSTAND (Edmond). L'Aiglon. Drama in six acts, in verse. First performed at Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, March 15, 1900. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900. - In-8, 212 x 136 : (5 ff.), 262 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover. White morocco, boards decorated with gilt fillets and roulettes forming rectangular compartments around the edges, crowned N and crowned eagle gilt at the corners, ornate ribbed spine, gilt fillets, roulette and fleurons inside, gilt rosette at the corners, light blue tabis linings and endpapers, double guards, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved, white morocco spine folder and flap bands, lined slipcase (Ch. Meunier 1902). First edition of Rostand's second masterpiece, after Cyrano de Bergerac, illustrated with a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as L'Aiglon by Louise Abbéma. One of 180 numbered copies on Japon paper, complete with the handsome cover illustrated by René Lalique. A superb copy bound in the period by Charles Meunier. Spine of dust jacket browned. Provenance: Baron de Launoit, with bookplate.