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LACLOS, Pierre-Ambroise-François, Choderlos de (1741-1803). Les Liaisons dangereuses. Lettres recueillies dans une société, Et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. ‘Londres’: 1796.
2 volumes, 8° (195 x 121mm). With half titles. Printed on laid paper watermarked ‘Garde laîné & Compagnie’ and ‘Marais’. Engraved frontispieces and 13 plates, 12 after Monnet and Mlle Gérard and Fragonard fils, and one by Bertaux and Dupréel after Fragonard. (Occasional spotting, the last two gatherings in vol. 2 transposed by the binder). 19th-century dark green diced morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments and with red morocco double lettering pieces. edges red, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed, spines evenly faded). Provenance: Silvio Zipoli (bookplate).
An attractively bound copy of the best illustrated edition of ‘the most skilfully crafted “epistolary” novel ever written’ (New Oxford Companion to Literature in French). ‘These striking plates form the outstanding contemporary interpretation of Les Liaisons dangereuses. They are not likely to be superseded however often this celebrated novel is illustrated’ (Ray). A piracy also dated 1796 was in fact published in 1812. Cohen-de Ricci 235; Ray French 82.
2 volumes, 8° (195 x 121mm). With half titles. Printed on laid paper watermarked ‘Garde laîné & Compagnie’ and ‘Marais’. Engraved frontispieces and 13 plates, 12 after Monnet and Mlle Gérard and Fragonard fils, and one by Bertaux and Dupréel after Fragonard. (Occasional spotting, the last two gatherings in vol. 2 transposed by the binder). 19th-century dark green diced morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments and with red morocco double lettering pieces. edges red, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed, spines evenly faded). Provenance: Silvio Zipoli (bookplate).
An attractively bound copy of the best illustrated edition of ‘the most skilfully crafted “epistolary” novel ever written’ (New Oxford Companion to Literature in French). ‘These striking plates form the outstanding contemporary interpretation of Les Liaisons dangereuses. They are not likely to be superseded however often this celebrated novel is illustrated’ (Ray). A piracy also dated 1796 was in fact published in 1812. Cohen-de Ricci 235; Ray French 82.
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