Traité du vrai mérite de l'homme

New edition. Title page in red and black.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label. Head of spine partly lacking. 2 corners slightly bumped.
A treatise on moral philosophy and education in the taste of the 18th century, that is to say written with wit, style and eloquence, irony and seriousness, finesse and didacticism, and for good reason, this treatise was much read and appreciated in its time. If it invents nothing, the author assembles all the moral thought of the 18th century, heir to the moralists of the previous century, which is no small thing.