Large octavo. Quarter dark red calf with red textured cloth boards, spine in gilt-ruled compartments with titling gilt; marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto decorative title, verso blank), 1f. (recto half title, verso blank), [i] (notes on first performance and named cast list), ii-iii (contents), [i] (note), 341, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast includes Vergnet, Manoury, Gresse, Fontaine, Boutens, Mansuède, M. Duvivier, Bl. Deschamps, and Lonati. Occasional performance markings in pencil. Binding worn, scuffed, and slightly shaken; corners bumped; head and tail frayed. Slightly worn and soiled; some signatures split or partially split; occasional light foxing; annotations in pencil to free front endpaper; small circular publisher's handstamp to lower margin of title; first leaf of music torn at inner margin and partially detached. Lacking half-title. First Edition. Hérodiade, with a libretto by P. Milliet and H. Grémont after Flaubert's Hérodias, was first performed in Brussels at the Théâtre de