Antoine HAMILTON

Edition illustrated with 78 portraits, not 72 as stated on the title page, engraved by Harding and Voet, after the original paintings. Some minor foxing, ownership inscription in pen on the title page which left a small ink stain to the lower right-hand corner of the same page, slight scuffing to the boards.
Entirely printed on vellum, complete with the binder's instructions at the beginning and the index table at the end.
Edition with commentary by Horace Walpole.
Bound in full Russian red morocco, spine with three raised bands, spine framed in gilt and elaborately decorated with gilt typographic motifs, gilt roulettes at head and foot of spine, slight rubbing to spine-ends...

New edition illustrated with 5 portraits by Saint-Aubin and 4 engravings by Moreau le Jeune engraved by Ghendt and Trière.
Contemporary bindings in full blonde mottled calf, smooth spines decorated with gilt motifs and tools, gilt fillets and dentelles, red morocco title labels, green morocco volume labels, gilt fillets emphasizing the edges, gilt lines on the headcaps, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Joint cracked on the first volume, headcaps of the first two volumes damaged, edges rubbed, traces of a removed bookplate on the first pastedown of the first volume, foxing.

Illustrated edition with a frontispiece and 6 etchings by J. Chauvet as well as letters, fleurons and tailpieces by Léon Lemaire, one of 10 numbered copies on China paper, the most limited deluxe printing with 10 Japan and after 1 vellum.
Our copy contains a triple state of the etchings including 1 in bistre and 1 in black.
Very occasional foxing.
Handsome copy despite tiny lacks to the upper and lower corners of the boards.

Factitious collection of several editions by the same publisher at different dates comprising the author's works. The first 4 volumes dated 1762 bring together the tales and miscellaneous works. The 2 volumes numbered 5 and 6 are the Memoirs of the Count of Grammont, dated 1760 and with the same device as on the title pages of the first 4 volumes. The seventh volume contains miscellaneous works dated 1776, the only volume bearing an address and place (Le Jay in Paris).
Contemporary bindings in full glazed blonde marbled calf. Smooth spines decorated with acorn tools. Red morocco title labels, and black morocco volume labels (that of volume II in green morocco may have changed color)...

New edition, considered the most beautiful and most correct of the author's complete works. Illustrated with 8 portraits by A. de Saint-Aubin in volume I and 4 figures after Moreau le jeune in volume II.
Contemporary full brown calf bindings, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt and blind fillets, as well as a blind typographical motif, gilt dentelle at head and tail, covers decorated with a gilt fillet, blind cornerpieces and a large blind fleuron in the center, Greek key roll framing the pastedowns, all edges gilt.
Joints slightly rubbed, otherwise a handsome copy.
Antoine Hamilton is primarily the author of the Mémoires du comte de Grammont, which Etiemble...

First collected edition; two additional volumes would be added in a new collected edition in 1749.
Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Spine with five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, with a camel morocco title label. Blind fillet and corner fleurons framing the boards. Gilt roll on edges and headcaps. All edges red. Title page lightly browned at outer margin, same for the last leaf. A small corner lack on page 103 of the first part.
Antoine Hamilton is primarily the author of the Mémoires du comte de Grammont, which Etiemble (author of the anthology of 18th-century authors in the Pléiade collection and rediscoverer of 18th-century authors like...

New, more complete edition of Hamilton's works.
Miscellaneous works: Letters and epistles. Volume I: The Ram, poems. Volume II: Thorn Blossom; songs. Volume III: The Four Facardins; poems.
Each tale has its own title page.
Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title and volume labels. Head slightly worn. Rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. A good copy.
Besides being the author of the famous Memoirs of the Count of Grammont, Hamilton wrote several tales that were much appreciated in their time and are usually included in the anthology of 18th-century tales.

New edition, considered the most beautiful and correct of the author's complete works. Illustrated with 8 portraits by A. de Saint-Aubin in volume I and 4 figures after Moreau le jeune in volume II.
Near-contemporary bindings in full glazed blonde calf. Spines with five fine raised bands set with gilt friezes and decorated with typographical motifs and gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot. Red morocco title and volume labels. Fillet and decorative gilt board-edges on covers. Yellow edges. One joint cracked and restored at foot. One stain at foot of second cover of first volume. Occasional foxing.
Handsome copy.
Antoine Hamilton is above all the author of the Mémoires du...

Illustrated edition with 33 original compositions by Charles Delort engraved with burin and etching by L. Boisson and, as frontispiece, a portrait of Antoine Hamilton.
Half blue morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with triple gilt compartments richly adorned with gilt typographical motifs, gilt date at foot, frame of gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Champs.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
Handsome copy attractively bound.