STENDHAL (Henri Beyle, dit). Life of Rossini. Paris, Augouste Boulland, 1824. 2 volumes in-8, first edition, illustrated with 2 portraits engraved after Léopold Beyer by A. Tardieu. Bound in long-grain brown half-maroquin, 5-ribbed spine, signed Canape. Ex-libris Georges Lainé. (traces of glue on the first cover of the second volume, slight foxing, spine slightly rubbed and unstained). Expert : M. Nicolas ASVISIO