[DEVAINES (Jean)]. A collection of several articles taken fr - Lot 119

[DEVAINES (Jean)]. A collection of several articles taken from various periodicals. No place, no publisher, Year VII (1799). In-4, marbled sheepskin, plain spine with decoration, red title label, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). A 220-page edition, printed in a small number of copies: the book sale catalog of J. M. E. de Vaines, Peer of France (1840, no. 271), indicates a print run of 60 copies. Another edition of 205 pages was printed the same year at the Château de Dampierre, with a print run of only 14 copies. It has not been established which of these two editions predates the other. Among the 42 articles in the collection are a letter from Diderot to the Empress of Russia, a biographical sketch on Syeyes [sic], articles on Caleb William de Godwin, on La Rochefoucauld’s *The Prisons of Philadelphia*, and on Diderot’s *The Nun*. Foliate stains on the endpapers and title page. One spine split over 8 cm; some rubbing.

Estimate:£250.39

View all items fromGiquelloorBooks, Maps & Manuscripts