Visinand (A., binder).- Beyle (Marie-Henri)], "Stendhal". L'Abbesse de Castro, number 135 of an unspecified number (160 copies for members of the academy), this copy for Gustave de Ridder, additional pictorial title, 13 etched illustrations and decorative borders to text printed in different colours all by Eugène Courboin, some light offsetting, bound in claret morocco with coloured onlays and tooled in gilt, by Visinand, covers with border of onlaid leaves and flowers in green, tan, beige and blue morocco all within interlacing double gilt fillets tooled in gilt, spine titled in gilt and with similar onlays and tooling, claret morocco doublures with quatrefoil outlined in double gilt lines surrounded by inlaid blue morocco flowers with swirling tendrils and four smaller quatrefoils composed of drawer-handle tools within triple fillet border all in gilt, signed at foot of front doublure, red & black silk brocade linings, marbled endpapers, original purple wrappers printed in gold bound in, g.e., preserved in marbled slip-case (very slightly rubbed at edges), large 8vo (c.260 x 175mm.), Paris, pour les Sociétaires de l'Académie des Beaux Livres, 1890.