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BERANGER.

The Complete Works of P. J. de Béranger. A new edition revised by the author.

[With] Posthumous works by Béranger, My Biography written by Béranger with an appendix and two notes. [And] Béranger’s last songs from 1834 to 1851. 

[And] Music for Béranger’s songs: ancient and modern notated tunes. Ninth edition revised by Frédéric Bérat.

Paris, Perrotin, 1847, 1860 [and] 1865.

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The Complete Works of P. J. de Béranger. A new edition revised by the author.

[With] Posthumous works by Béranger, My Biography written by Béranger with an appendix and two notes. [And] Béranger’s last songs from 1834 to 1851. 

[And] Music for Béranger’s songs: ancient and modern notated tunes. Ninth edition revised by Frédéric Bérat.

Paris, Perrotin, 1847, 1860 [and] 1865.

5 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary blue half-morocco with corner pieces, raised ribbed spine, gilt title and volume number, richly decorated panels, gilt fillet on the covers, gilt head, original endpapers preserved [Mercier Sx. de Cuzin] (a few scattered foxing spots).

A fine copy with wide margins in an elegant binding by Mercier.

Volumes I and II illustrated with 52 previously unpublished steel engravings, based on drawings by Charlet, Lemud, Johannot, Daubigny, Pauquet, Jacques, Lange, Pinguilly, de Rudder and Raffet. Includes two facsimile pages from a manuscript.

The biography is illustrated with a full-length portrait engraved after Charlet, and 8 engravings by Durond, Massart, Lalaisse, Nargeot and Ruhierre after d’Aubigny, Sandoz and Wattier. It also includes a photograph based on the marble bust by Geoffroy-Dechaume.

Béranger’s Dernières chansons are illustrated with 14 drawings by Lemud, engraved on steel by Balin, Brunet, Colin, Darodes, Doherty, Massart, Moret, Nargeot and others.

The music for Béranger’s songs, comprising old and modern notated melodies, is supplemented by the music for posthumous songs set to melodies composed by Béranger, Halévy, Gounod and Laurent de Rillé. 

The plates in Volume I, Volume II, the biography and Béranger’s Dernières chansons are accompanied by a black-and-white suite.