Cyrano de Bergerac

The édition originale is Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898, 225 pages, issued in original printed wrappers (very often bound later by the great binders, with the wrappers preserved and bound in at the rear), and carrying Rostand's dedication 'C'est à l'âme de CYRANO que je voulais dédier ce poème' — addressed to Coquelin, who created the role at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin premiere on 28 December 1897