Les barons de Flesheim, histoire allemande, qui n'est pas tirée de l'allemand

First edition illustrated with an engraving as frontispiece to each of the four volumes.
Half red shagreen bindings, spines with four thin raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with broad black fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, two joints slightly cracked.
On the fourth volume: a filled gap at foot of pages 41-42 (not touching text) and a marginal tear without loss on pages 211-212 with slight damage to text.
Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l'Épinoy, known as Pigault-Lebrun, was a French novelist and playwright born in 1753 in Calais and died in 1835 at La Celle-Saint-Cloud. Pigault Lebrun is at the very source of French popular fiction which flourished in the 19th century with Alexandre Dumas and Eugène Sue. He made the fortune of publisher Barba who wrote his biography.
Rare.