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Rare first collected edition, illustrated with a fine frontispiece portrait by Nanteuil. Printer’s device on the title page. A handsome headpiece and an ornamental initial decorate the dedicatory epistle to Mademoiselle de Scudéry.
Copy bearing the comital arms of Pierre VI de Villars, Archbishop of Vienne: azure, three golden spurs; on a chief argent, a lion rampant gules.
Contemporary full speckled calf. Spine with raised bands, richly gilt in the grotesque style. Double gilt fillet frame on covers. Expert restorations to headcaps and joints. Rubbing to edges and raised bands. Some scattered foxing. Misnumbered pagination on pp. 246–284 and pp. 136–193, in fact 39