DUMAS, Alexandre, père (1802-70). L'Orestie. Tragédie en Trois Actes et en Vers. Imitée de l' Antique. Paris: A la Librairie Théatrale, 1856. 8°. Half title, printed on pink paper. Original printed wrappers, uncut (upper wrapper stained with slight loss to lower corners, detaching, some loss to backstrip), in later red morocco solander case. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "Ma Pigéonnier de Monti, A. Dumas." A pencil note on the opposite page reads "Cet exemplaire sur papier rose a été donné par Alex. Dumas à Mme. Emma Mannoury-Lacour à Caen." Beneath is tipped in the recipient's visiting card. On the half title is a further pencil note: "From Library of Emile Zola".