DUMAS FILS (Alexandre). The Lady of the Camellias. Preface by Jules Janin. Paris : Librairie moderne, Gustave Havard, 1858. - Large in-8, 264 x 180 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), 396 pp. 19 plates, illustrated cover. Dark blue half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Gruel). First illustrated edition of the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, decorated in the first printing with a title vignette, repeated on the cover, and 20 woodcut plates after GAVARNI. ONE OF THE RARE COPIES PRINTED ON HOLLANDE PAPER, INCLUDING THE ENGRAVINGS ON CHINE. This one, very well bound by Gruel, comes from the fine collection of Lucien Tissot Dupont. It has been enriched with a lithograph enhanced in colours from the collection Les Théâtres de Paris, representing the actor Fechter in La Dame aux camélias, after a drawing by Eustache-Lorsay (pp. 116-117), and 3 autograph letters signed by Dumas fils, 4 pages in-12, unrelated to the work. Some scattered foxing, soiling to the cover. Provenance: Lucien Tissot Dupont, with bookplate (sale 15 June 1970, n° 25).