Letters of the marquise du Deffand to the hon. Horace Walpole, afterwards earl of Oxford, from the year 1766 to the year 1780 - To which are added letters of the madame du Deffand to Voltaire from the year 1759 to the year 1775

First edition.
Full caramel calf bindings, spines with fine raised bands highlighted with gilt fillets and decorated with richly ornamented double gilt compartments, author's name in red calf, olive green calf volume labels, triple fillets stamped in blind on boards, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, blind-stamped borders framing the pastedowns, two bookplates pasted on a pastedown of the first volume and following endpapers, gilt edges on cuts, red speckled edges, elegant English bindings
Our copy includes, in the first volume, the portrait of the Marquise du Deffand as frontispiece as well as a facsimile of her handwriting after the preface.
Fine copy very handsomely bound.