Jean-Pierre-Louis de La Roche du Maine LUCHET

Several editions appeared the same year in Paris, London, Berlin.
Full brown flamed sheep binding, late 19th century. Smooth spine richly decorated in Restoration style. Red morocco title label. Fine copy.
Armorial bookplate engraved, from a private library.
Satirical and cynical description of Parisian life and customs. The author discusses theaters, prisons, fashions, promenades, the Tuileries...

Reprint of the first edition also published in 1789. A second volume of these portraits would appear a little later.
In original wrappers. Title page margins worn.
The work is a series of portraits, with a key at the end of the book to identify them; it includes Necker, Guillotin, Sieyès... Luchet also participated in writing some of these portraits.