MAILLARD (Firmin): Le Salon de la Vieille Dame à la Tête de Bois. Paris, J.-Olivier Affolter, 1899; in 8°, full red red morocco, richly decorated ribbed spine, boards decorated with a row of six gilded fillets, green morocco lined decorated with a row of six gilded fillets, green tabis endpapers, gilded edges, covers and spine preserved, case. case. Rich binding by AFFOLTER, dated 1911. One of the 25 first copies on Japon paper, no. 19. A very fine copy of this charming collection of tasty anecdotes on the life of literary salons under the Second Empire. This Salon de la Vielle Dame à la Tête de Bois is none other than the Académie Française, so named by the English.