GAUTIER (Theophilus). Letters to the President and Poetic Galleries. Edition containing sixty-five unpublished letters and the exact text of the letter from Italy. Published with an introduction and notes by Helpey Bibliographe poitevin. Accompanied by a study on The President by Sylvestre Bonnard. Neuilly: Editions du "Musée secret", 1927. - In-8, 236 x 165: portrait, (1 f. white), 199 pp., (1 f. white), 14 plates, printed cover. Paperback, blanket full. Dutel, 1847, critical edition in part original, not commercially available, 465 copies. It is illustrated with a portrait of the author in frontispiece, based on a photograph by Nadar, 2 photographic reproductions of 2 sculptures by Madame Sabatier after Clésinger, as well as 12 original etchings free of text by the Belgian painter and cartoonist Luc Lafnet (1899-1939) under the pseudonym Viset. One of the 450 numbered copies on Rives vellum, perfectly preserved. Dirty blanket, perfectly fresh inside.