STENDHAL [i.e. Marie Henri BEYLE]. [Oeuvres Complètes], edited by Edouard Champion, Paris: Edouard Champion, 1913-39, 35 volumes only, including 4 supplementary volumes, 8°, variously limited, 30 frontispieces, 94 plates, one map (marginal annotations to a few leaves in one vol.), near uniform contemporary dark brown half morocco by CANAPE, L. PEETERS and BRUNO SCHEER (a few spines faded), original wrappers bound in, t.e.g. (35)

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STENDHAL [i.e. Marie Henri BEYLE]. [Oeuvres Complètes], edited by Edouard Champion, Paris: Edouard Champion, 1913-39, 35 volumes only, including 4 supplementary volumes, 8°, variously limited, 30 frontispieces, 94 plates, one map (marginal annotations to a few leaves in one vol.), near uniform contemporary dark brown half morocco by CANAPE, L. PEETERS and BRUNO SCHEER (a few spines faded), original wrappers bound in, t.e.g. (35)

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The set contains Vie de Henri Brulard (2 vols.), Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase, Rome, Naples et Florence (2 vols.), Le Rouge et le Noir (2 vols.), Mémoires d'un Touriste (3 vols.), Lucien Leuwen (4 vols.), Vie de Rossini (2 vols.), Histoire de la Peinture en Italie (2 vols.), Journal (5 vols.), Armance, Racine et Shakespeare (2 vols.), Promenades dans Rome, De l'Amour (2 vols.), Napoleon (2 vols.). The 4 supplementary volmes are A. Paupe's La Vie Littéraire de Stendhal, H. Cordier's Bibliographie Stendhalienne, and P. Arbelet's La Jeunesse de Stendhal (2 vols.). Only the first volume of Promenades dans Rome is present (though numbered "II" on the spine and wrappers).

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