J. Frédéric Bernard

First edition. Another edition appeared on the same date from Florentin Delaulne in Paris. Title page in red and black.
Full old red morocco binding ca 1860, unsigned. Raised bands spine in Jansenist style decorated with blind compartments. Gilt title and "Edition originale" at foot. Double blind fillet frame on boards. Rich interior border. Edges gilt. Foxing, angular lack at head of leaf 45-46 not touching text, light rubbing at foot of spine, a very small marginal dampstain affecting some leaves at head, otherwise handsome copy, in an unsigned master binding.
Dialogue between A, B and C on the nature of eloquence, A having the role of Socrates and employing maieutics, B and C re

Edition with some parts in first edition, definitive, rare; "more complete than the previous ones and the best that was given in the 18th century"... Tchemerzine V, 396. An engraved portrait by Thomassin at the frontispiece. This would be the only edition of the Memoirs cited by de Bure in his bibliography. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full blonde calf binding, glazed. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons. Title labels absent, the letters remaining visible; black calf volume labels, rubbed. Headcaps of volumes I and II worn, volumes III and IV frayed; tailcap of volume I partially missing. Joints of volume I cracked, cracked at head and foot for volume II and