ROSTAND (Edmond). Cyrano de Bergerac. Drama in five acts. Paris : Armand Magnier, 1899. - In-4, 280 x 190 : 299 pp, 5 plates, illustrated cover. Red half-maroquin with corners, gilt filets, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Ad. Lavaux). First illustrated edition, with 54 wood-engraved compositions by Romagnol, after compositions by François Thévenot (cover and portrait), Adrien Moreau (act I), Charles Léandre (act II), Albert Laurens (act III), François Flameng (act IV) and Albert Besnard (act V), of which 5 are hors texte. Edition at 500 copies. One of 400 on vellum paper (n° 338) including a suite of illustrations on chine. Copy enriched with the following items : - two superb original drawings signed by Albert Laurens for the illustration of the title and page 171, - L.A.S . from Constant Coquelin, creator of the role of Cyrano, 3 1/2 pages in-8, - suite of 5 off-texts in color reproduced on coated paper, - two articles on Edmond Rostand, the first one including a scene from Cyrano de Bergerac including 8 photographs of Coquelin reproduced in black, - numbers 465 and 3 of the magazine Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui dedicated respectively to Edmond Rostand and Constant Coquelin . A perfectly preserved copy, despite some rare foxing.