GAUTIER Théophile. Histoire du romantisme, suivie de notices romantiques et d'une étude sur la poésie française 1830-1868. 
Paris, Charpentier & Cie, 1874. 

In-12 (190 x 127 mm), (3) ff, VI-410 pp, (1) f., covers and spine preserved.
Full red morocco, double gilt fillet and bold cold fillet between the two gilt, spine with faux-nerves, boxes decorated with a double gilt fillet and gilt irons at the corners, gilt edges, slipcase including the enclosed volume (J. Faki).

[Enclosed in another volume with the slipcase ]: Recueil sur l'Histoire du romantisme.
[Paris, Le Bien public, 1872]. 

In-4 (287 x 212 mm), (115) ff.
Red half-chagrin, spine with false-nerves, decorated with a double gilt fillet and gilt irons at the corners (contemporary binding).

Sought-after first edition.
"A capital work on the history of Romanticism. These are articles published in 1872 in Le Bien Public" (Carteret).
One of 50 numbered copies on hollande, the only large paper.
A superb copy bound in imitation of the period, without the extract from the publisher's catalogue.

A period portrait of Gautier by Nadar (9 x 5.5 cm) mounted on the photographer's cardboard is set into the upper flyleaf of the binding.

An interesting supplementary collection is appended to the volume, consisting at the time of press cuttings of the first eleven chapters of the Histoire du romantisme published in the Bien public in 1872 (without the twelfth chapter), and other documents relating to Théophile Gautier: the autograph manuscript of the obituary of Philoxène Boyer published in the Revue des Théâtres, an envelope from the Moniteur universel addressed Feuilleton du 19 novembre 1867 / Th. Gautier, a portrait of Gautier engraved by Célestin Nanteuil, a biographical note taken from the Musée universel...

This collection is said to have come from the Philothée O'Neddy library, the pen name of Théophile Dondey (1811-1875), a frenetic romantic and early friend of Gautier, to whom the latter devoted an entire chapter of the Histoire du romantisme (pp. 62-69). A pencil note on one of the endpapers reads: ‘Provient de la vente de Dondey (Philothée O'Neddy)’; the collection is certainly not described in the catalogue of its sale after his death in 1875, but few Romantic works are.

The tenth chapter, on The Legend of the Red Waistcoat, is enriched by a fragment of red silk - a relic, perhaps, of the waistcoat Philothée O'Neddy himself wore at the premiere of Hernani.

An issue of L'Éclipse devoted to Gautier (1869, no. 67) is also included.
Vicaire, III, 938 – Carteret, I, 335.