Florilège de citations

Manuscript composed of quotations, all in the same hand, neat and legible. Fragments from Voltaire, Chateaubriand (Essai sur les révolutions), Berchoux, Mémoires de Madame de Maintenon, Lettres de l'abbé de Tressan and the Prince de Ligne... Approximately 21 lines per page. The texts begin directly at the top of a page without the author's name, which is revealed at the end of the extract.
Contemporary full green Russia leather binding. Smooth spine elegantly decorated. Triple fillet frame on the covers. Traces of rubbing. A very handsome copy.