ROSTAND (Edmond). L'Aiglon. Drama in six acts, in verse. First performed at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, March 15, 1900, Paris : Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900 . - Large in-18, 200 x 134 : (5 ff.), 262 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Bradel green half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated with a cold mosaic flower, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept (Ch. Meunier). First edition of Rostand's second masterpiece, after Cyrano de Bergerac. Copy on publisher's paper, enriched with an autograph letter from the author to the writer, poet and playwright Maurice Magre (1877-1941): to the poet Maurice Magre // very sympathetically // Edmond RostandAlso added, pasted to the front of the first leaf, is an original unsigned watercolour depicting Sarah Bernhardt in the role of the Duke of Reichstadt, accompanying lines of Lamartine quoted by the character of Thérèse in Act I, Scene VIII: "Courage, fallen child of a divine race. You wear on your forehead your superb origin; any man seeing you ... " Back. False title and title partly unbound, foxing on the verso of the first leaf, caused by the glue of the watercolor portrait.Provenance: Maurice Magre, with a letter from the author.