Examen critique des dictionnaires de langue françoise ou recherches grammaticales et littéraires de l'orthographe, l'acception, la définition et l'étymologie des mots

First edition.
Cntemporary marbled roan binding, smooth spine with partialy faded roll-tooled and ruled gilt motifs, burgundy roan title-label, spine-ends restored, joints restored at head and foot, marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, gilt ruled leading edges, upper corners bent, marbled edges.
Some minor foxing, browned leaves, printed library stamp and pencil annotations to one endpaper.
Provenance: Louis Humbert library, with his bookplate on front pastedown.
Rare signed inscription by Charles Nodier to the royalist journalist, disciple of Félicité de La Mennais, staunch critic of Romanticism Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie: "A Monsieur Laurentie, son dévoué Charles Nodier."