LA GUZLA, OU CHOIX DE POÉSIES ILLYRIQUES, RECUEILLIES DANS LA DALMATIE, LA BOSNIE, LA CROATIE ET L'HERZÉGOWINE

Paris: Chez F.G. Levrault...; et...à Strasbourg, 1827. xii,257pp. Small octavo. Original printed publisher's pale blue boards. Lithographed frontis portrait of Hyacinthe Maglanovitch. Boards faintly soiled, small chip at crown of spine, inner hinges cracking, but sound, scattered foxing, but a very good copy in original state. First edition of Mérimée's anonymously published second original book, presented as being translations from the Illyrian of non- existent poet, Hyacinthe Maglanovich. The conceit is said to have taken in Sir John Bowring, as well as Pushkin. A scarce book in this original condition. CARTERET II:136. VICAIRE V:705. TALVART & PLACE (MÉRIMÉE) 3. ASSELINEAU, pp.21-2. (Inventory #: WRCLIT46294)