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Book Condition: Used Very Good+
Seller: Antiquarian Book Shop

United States
About Item: Paris: Chez Humblot (de l'imprimerie de Quillau). Very Good+. 1767. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 2 vols in 1 pages; Contemporary full calf, mottled decorative staining, flat spine separated into panels by gilt rules with floral tools in gilt in the center of each panel but the second, which has a red morocco titling label lettered in gilt, swirl marbled endpapers, edges of the text block marbled to match. A lovely binding of the time of publication, showing just a touch of the lightest rubbing along the hinges and corners; a clean and pleasing copy in choice condition. A significant and sucessful novel in epistolary form by one of the masters of the genre, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (1714 - 1792). The author was born in 1713 as Marie-Jeanne Heurles de Laboras and was to endure a dramatically adverse situation before she was a year old, when her father was convicted of bigamy. The usual form of the author's name is a result of her 1734 marriage to an actor and… Read More
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