Paris, Versailles et les provinces au 18e siècle. Anecdotes sur la vie privée de plusieurs Ministres, Evêques, Magistrats, célèbres, hommes de lettres, et autres personnages connus sous le règne de Louis XV et Louis XVI[Paris, Versailles and the Provinces in the 18th Century]
First edition, very difficult to find complete, as the third volume was published eight years after the first two.
Bound in full mottled bronze-green calf, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt floral compartments, red morocco labels for title and volume number, gilt rolls on the caps, joints slightly rubbed, gilt roll-tooled borders on the covers entirely adorned with oblong geometric patterns in blind, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt Greek-key borders framing the pastedowns, bookplate mounted on the pastedown of the first volume, gilt fillets on the edges, all edges gilt, contemporary bindings.
Contains anecdotes about Rousseau, Poivre, Turgot, Helvétius, Benjamin Franklin, Holbach, Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld, the Marquise de Pompadour, Calonne, Necker, Beaujon…
A handsome copy attractively bound in a period decorative binding.