LAMARTINE (Alphonse de).

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LAMARTINE (Alphonse de).
Poetic meditations. Paris, Au Dépôt de la librairie grecque-latine-allemande, 1820 [De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné]. In-8, basane racinée, smooth spine decorated, red title page, red speckled edges (Binding of the period). First edition. Copy in a contemporary binding, having belonged to Mathieu de Montmorency, Lamartine's protector, with his engraved armorial bookplate. Mathieu de Montmorency, peer of France and close to the royal family, had bought from Chateaubriand his house of the Vallée-aux-Loups. Lamartine, who met him in 1819 at the castle of La Roche-Guyon, the illustrious home of La Rochefoucauld, wrote about him: I was also often visited by Mathieu de Montmorency, enthusiastic about my verses, forgetting the distance of rank and name and filling it with the condescension of friendship. He took a keen interest in me; he promised my friends that if he reached, as was then expected, the ministry of foreign affairs, the first act he would sign would be my appointment as chargé d'affaires in some court of Spain, Germany or Italy. He kept his predilection for me until his death and bequeathed me the proof in his will (Lamartine par lui-même, 1892, p. 91). Some spotting, small wetness in the inner margin of the quires. Minor split in one spine.
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