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POULLAIN DE SAINT-FOIX, Germain-François (1698-1776). Oeuvres Complettes. Paris: C. Simon and Clousier for la veuve Duchesne, 1778.
6 volumes, 8° (195 x 122mm). Half-titles and titles in red and black, engraved portrait of the author by N. Le Mire after Pougin de St. Aubin, within an elaborate frame after Pierre-Clément Marillier, two engraved plates after Marillier (one used as frontispiece of vol. II), woodcut head-pieces. (Occasional very light spotting or offsetting, neat repair to V4 of vol. IV affecting three letters.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with fillet border, spines in six compartments with floral tools, brown morocco lettering-pieces in two, g.e. Provenance: Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford; armorial bookplate); unidentified monogrammed red morocco booklabel. Cohen-de Ricci 924. (6)
6 volumes, 8° (195 x 122mm). Half-titles and titles in red and black, engraved portrait of the author by N. Le Mire after Pougin de St. Aubin, within an elaborate frame after Pierre-Clément Marillier, two engraved plates after Marillier (one used as frontispiece of vol. II), woodcut head-pieces. (Occasional very light spotting or offsetting, neat repair to V4 of vol. IV affecting three letters.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with fillet border, spines in six compartments with floral tools, brown morocco lettering-pieces in two, g.e. Provenance: Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford; armorial bookplate); unidentified monogrammed red morocco booklabel. Cohen-de Ricci 924. (6)