![]() ![]() Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Formed Between 18 by Alfred Morrison, 1883, p. Meyer had acquired this outstanding document from the collection of Alfred Morrison (cf. In this case, the addenda, bound in a matching half-calf volume, greatly surpass in value the works they accompany: 1) A precious letter by the Renaissance noblewoman Lucrezia Borgia, famous for her marriages and her affair with Pietro Bembo (signed "Lucretia Esteri de Borgia"), written in recommendation of Hector Beringero to the poet Antonio Tebaldeo (1463-1537), secretary to Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (later Lucrezia's lover). When the set was auctioned at the sale of the library of the author's grandson Georges-Victor Hugo, it was acquired by Arthur Meyer, the director of the prestigious daily "Le Gaulois" and a passionate collector who was wont to enrich, or "truffle", his books with appropriate rare autographs and drawings. A charming ensemble of three first editions of Victor Hugo's plays, each one inscribed by the author to his elder brother, the essayist and military writer Abel Hugo (1798-1855). Both volumes stored together in a matching calf-entry marbled slipcase. Autograph ink caricature, mounted on backing paper. A matching second volume contains: 1) Borgia, Lucrezia (1480-1519). ![]() ![]() All three bound in a single volume in slightly later half calf with giltstamped spine and marbled covers. ![]()
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