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First edition

Letters of the marquise du Deffand to the hon. Horace Walpole, afterwards earl of Oxford, from the year 1766 to the year 1780 - To which are added letters of the madame du Deffand to Voltaire from the year 1759 to the year 1775

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du DEFFAND & Horace WALPOLE & VOLTAIRE

Letters of the marquise du Deffand to the hon. Horace Walpole, afterwards earl of Oxford, from the year 1766 to the year 1780 - To which are added letters of the madame du Deffand to Voltaire from the year 1759 to the year 1775

Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London 1810, 11x18cm, 4 volumes reliés.


First edition.
Elegant English bindings in full beige calf, spine elaborately decorated and framed in gilt, author's name in red calf, volume labels in green olive calf, boards triple framed in blind, blue paper endpapers and flyleaves, two ex-libris on front pastedowns to first volume, speckled red edges, elegant English bindings.
Our copy includes the frontispiece portrait of the Marquise du Deffand in the first volume, as well as a facsimile of her handwriting after the preface.
A fine copy, very nicely bound. 



 

450 €

Réf : 85664

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