Lettres de la Marquise de M *** au Comte de R ***

Second edition and first Dutch edition. Title pages in red and black. One repeated title vignette.
Contemporary full speckled calf binding. Spine with raised bands richly ornamented. A small lack at head. 2 corners slightly bumped. Split to upper joint at head. Good copy. Famous epistolary and libertine novel of a tragic passion that ends with the death of the lover. Here is the dawn of a total and devouring love, of which one knows not whether it is addressed to a real man or to an ideal. Crébillon chose to give us only the letters of the Marquise who dramatically applies herself to analyzing the least of her feelings, whose passion of love will lead her to death, thus fulfilling the letter that her name bears: M.