Ménard & Desenne

New illustrated edition, with frontispiece in the first volume of a portrait of Madame de Sévigné engraved by Dequevauviller.
Half raspberry calf bindings, spines with four raised bands set with gilt garlands decorated with fleurons and typographical motifs stamped in blind, black calf title and volume labels, raspberry cardboard boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, two corners slightly bumped, elegant contemporary romantic bindings.
Some minor foxing.
Handsome copy, complete in 12 volumes, in charming and elegant contemporary romantic and decorative binding.

New edition.
Full glazed caramel calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt tools, fillets and stamps, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt rolls on the headcaps, covers framed with a gilt fillet and blind tooled dentelle, gilt edges on the cuts, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary bindings.
Some minor foxing.
Handsome copy in an attractive contemporary binding.

New edition illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Full glazed caramel calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt tools, fillets and stamps, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, a small harmless hole at foot of one joint, covers framed with a gilt fillet and blind tooled border, gilt edges on leading edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary bindings.
Some minor foxing. Handsome copy in an attractive contemporary binding.