£95
French Literature and The Enlightenment - Marmontel (Jean-François), Contes Moraux, three-volume set, Paris: Merlin, 1775 & 1765, [&] Bélisaire, first edition, Paris: Merlin, 1767, each illustrated with engravings after Gravelot, Moraux with additional engraved title-pages, volume I with portrait frontispiece, further full-page plates to each volume, the set uniformly bound in polished calf gilt, red edges, marbled endpapers, 12mo, [4]
Provenance: 1) Pauline Pougeol Dervieu du Villar (1728-1813), armorial bookplate to pastedown of volume I; 2) Ludovic Froissart (d. 1977), bibliophile, his pictorial bookplate to pastedown of volume I.
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