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Courier de l'Europe, gazette anglo-françoise ; M. DCC. LXXXI. Volume neuvième [-dixième] - Année 1781 complète[Courier de l'Europe, Anglo-French Gazette; MDCCLXXXI. Ninth [-Tenth] Volume – Complete Year 1781]
E. Cox|London 1781|21 x 27 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of this periodical, comprising for the complete year 1781 (from 2 January to 28 December) 104 issues, the text printed in two columns with continuous pagination.
Contemporary half calf, mottled fawn, smooth spines decorated with gilt compartment tooling and floral ornaments, beige calf lettering-pieces and blue calf volume labels; minor losses and rubbing to spines and joints, a few scuffs to the blue paper boards, bumped corners, red edges; bindings contemporary to publication.
Transposition of ff. 357–58 and 359–60; initials in black ink and numbering to the endpapers; bookplate affixed and marginally torn in the first volume, another bookplate covered over in
€2,500