[POMMEREUL (François-René-Jean de)]. Epigrams by Martial, Owen and other Latin poets, ancient and modern. Ixelles, 1818. - In-8, half-box garnet à la Bradel, smooth spine, antique red paper pastedown on boards, untrimmed (modern binding). "Extremely rare edition of only 25 copies numbered on the title, published by François-René-Jean de Pommereul (1745-1823), general, prefect of Indre-et-Loire and general manager of the bookshop from January 1811 to 1813. PRECIOUS EXEMPLAIRE FROM POMMEREUL'S PERSONAL COLLECTION, NUMBER 1, annotated and corrected by him, and profusely enriched. After page 98, the last page of the book, there are 14 autograph pages and 28 printed pages, the latter paginated from 129 to 156. On the first autograph page, Pommereul adds: "Following this Recueil, without being part of it, we have, in this single copy, attached 28 pages containing 57 miscellaneous pieces, having no other connection with the Recueil, than to have, with the exception of 10, also been made in Ixelles in 1816-17-18 & 19, as well as the preface & Postface of the Recueil." The last two autograph leaves contain a series of epigrams written by Pommereul between May 1819 and December 25, 1822, i.e. just before his death on January 5, 1823. Copy in modern binding, with a "Notice sur M. Pommereul" by M. Beuchot at the head. A pencil note on the first white endpaper states: "Beuchot's notice is reassembled at the head, as found in the copy in brochure under red waxed paper (1993)." In this notice, Beuchot mentions this work when describing this copy, clumsily indicating 156 pages instead of 98. Worm damage and heavy foxing to Beuchot's notice. Some scattered foxing to the "Epigrams" work. Provenance: François-René-Jean de Pommereul. - Beuchot ? - Klincksieck, according to a note on the first white endpaper."