*DELACROIX (Eugène). Letters (1815 to 1863) collected and published by M. Philippe Burty. Paris : A. Quantin, 1878. - In-8, 248 x 166 : portrait, (3 ff.), XX, 391 pp. (2 ff. last blank), 9 facsimiles, 2 plates, printed cover. Red cloth with bradel, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover preserved (Pierson). First edition of this important collection of letters of the painter Eugène Delacroix, published by Philippe Burty. It is illustrated with a self-portrait of the artist in frontispiece, engraved in the black manner by Frédéric Villot (1809-1875), friend of Delacroix and curator of painting at the Louvre museum from 1848 to 1861, 9 facsimiles of letters out of the text and two plates of palettes in colors. EXAMPLE OF EDMOND DE GONCOURT, ONE OF THE 2 ON WHATMAN PAPER, justified and signed by Philippe Burty, including two states of the frontispiece, one of which in bistre before the letter, as well as this autograph dispatch on the false title: to Edmond de Goncourt // his friend // Ph. Burty The copy was bound by Pierson for Goncourt and includes the latter's bookplate who added above in red ink: "One of the two copies on Watman paper, with autograph added. de Goncourt". An autograph manuscript by Eugène Delacroix on an oblong sheet in-8 folded in two, written in pencil, is actually attached. This manuscript is a poem beginning as follows : " Take back your friendship Julie // your friendship makes my misfortune // to finish my sad madness // I implore today your rigor // Ah tender Julie... ". According to an added sheet, written in ink, it is a detached sheet of an album that belonged to the painter and which was half destroyed. A very well preserved copy. THE QUIRES 18 AND 19 ARE ON ORDINARY PAPER. Attached: - DELACROIX (Eugène). Lettres intimes. Unpublished correspondence published with a preface and notes by Alfred Dupont. Paris : Gallimard, [1954]. - In-12, 186 x 116 : 215 pp, (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Half beige calf with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding). First edition. ONE OF THE 45 COPIES ON PUR LAFUMA-NAVARRE VELIN, the only edition on large paper, this one bearing the number 1. A perfectly preserved copy.