Vie du marquis de Sade

First edition for which it was not drawn great papers for the first volume, one of the 35 copies out of trade reserved to the author and numbered on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies for the second volume.
Back of the first cracked volume, a tear restored at the foot of the first plate of the first volume, a small spot at the foot of the first plate of the second volume.
Signed autograph of Gilbert Lély to Jean Hugues on the second volume: "To my friend from Provence, Jean Hugues, bookseller of the king, affectionately, Gilbert.A height of solitude, an unknown accent of grace and fury ... GL"