STENDHAL. Red and black chronicles of the 19th century. Paris: A. Levavasseur, Urbain Canel, 1831. - 6 tomes in 2 volumes in-12, 180 x 105: (3 ff.), 215 pp., (1 f.); (2 ff.), 209 pp., (1 f.); (2 ff.), 201 pp., (1 f.); (2 ff.), 250 pp. misprinted 252; (2 ff.), 186 pp., (2 ff.), 237 pp., (1 f.). Half ivory scroll with corners, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed (German (?) binding of the period). Very rare second edition, the first in-12, of one of the masterpieces of French literature, published at the same date as the original in-8. It was published on March 5, 1831, less than 4 months after the latter, which was announced in the Bibliographie de la France on November 13 , 1830. 2 Good copy bound in 2 volumes, in a binding of the probably German , or at least foreign, period . Freckles, small wetness in the upper margin of the leaves of the first volume. Provenance: ex-libris CE.