LOUVET DE COUVRAY (Jean-Baptiste).

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LOUVET DE COUVRAY (Jean-Baptiste).
Les amours du chevalier de Faublas. Third edition. Paris, chez l'auteur, An VI de la République. Four volumes in-8, contemporary binding in long-grained midnight blue morocco, gilt filets and garland framing the boards, ornate spines, inner scroll, gilt edges (Simier). First edition. 27 copper-engraved hors texte figures after Demarne, Dutertre, Mlle Géraed, Marillier, Monsiau and Monnet. The most beautiful edition of the 18th century. A very fine copy, one of the rare ones on vellum paper containing the first edition of the figures, beautifully bound in the period by Simier. Marginal foxing on the plates. From the library of Sir Charles Tennant with ex-libris
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