MÉRIMÉE (Prosper). La Jaquerie, feudal scenes, followed by La Famille de Carvajal, Drama. By the author of Clara Gazul's theatre. Paris : Brissot-Thivars (imp. of H. de Balzac), 1828. - In-8, 213 x 134 : (4 ff.), 422 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Blue half-maroquin with corners, spine gilt, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (V. Champs). First edition of Prosper Mérimée's first historical work, composed in dramatic form and published without author's name. Printed by Balzac, it is, along with the third edition of Vigny's Cinq Mars, the only major contemporary literary text to come off his presses. Cover damaged and restored. Lower corners of the first 3 and last 3 leaves restored. Provenance: A. Hénin, Parisian goldsmith, with his bookplate engraved by Edmond Eugène Valton and dated 1880.