Le Jay

First edition illustrated with two out-of-text vignettes and a frontispiece engraving.
Half red morocco binding, spine very slightly faded with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Occasional light foxing, light rubbing to corners of boards, amusing biographical note concerning the author pasted to head of one pastedown.

Factitious collection of several editions by the same publisher at different dates comprising the author's works. The first 4 volumes dated 1762 bring together the tales and miscellaneous works. The 2 volumes numbered 5 and 6 are the Memoirs of the Count of Grammont, dated 1760 and with the same device as on the title pages of the first 4 volumes. The seventh volume contains miscellaneous works dated 1776, the only volume bearing an address and place (Le Jay in Paris).
Contemporary bindings in full glazed blonde marbled calf. Smooth spines decorated with acorn tools. Red morocco title labels, and black morocco volume labels (that of volume II in green morocco may have changed color)...

First collected edition of this collection of novellas whose 5 volumes appeared from 1774 to 1778. 1774 for the first two volumes, 1775 for the third volume, 1777 for the fourth and 1778 for the fifth volume (volumes to come are announced at the end of published volumes). Due to the extended publication period, it is rare to encounter a homogeneous set with all the correct edition dates. Each novella is separated by a half-title with an edition statement.
Each novella contains a figure, a half-page title vignette, and a tailpiece by Eisen or Marillier, and engraved by Binet, de Ghuendt, de Longueil... Very beautiful and fine illustration, being 48 figures and 24 tailpieces. The...

First edition, illustrated with a medallion portrait of Corneille on the title page, and three figures on heavy paper after Cochin, and engraved by Prévost, Ponce and Saint-Aubin.
Contemporary brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Red morocco title-label. Roulette on leading edges. Rubbing. 3 corners slightly bumped.
Didactic and lyrical poem, in alexandrines.

Pronostic sur Maximilien Robespierre par un animal amphibie. Portraict exact de cet animal [preceded by] Réponse à la justification de Maximilien Robespierre adressée à Jérôme Pétion par Olympe de Gouges [Prognostic of Maximilien Robespierre, by an Amphibious Animal. A Precise Portrait of this Animal [preceded by] Response to Maximilien Robespierre's Justification]
First edition of an extraordinarily rare pamphlet addressed by Olympe de Gouges to Robespierre, predicting all the downward spirals of the Revolution one year before the Reign of Terror. She will...