INVENTORY #109448
Recueil des Lettres de Madame la Marquise de Sevigne a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa Fille
SÉVIGNÉ, Madame la Marquise de
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Seven volumes out of series of nine, missing vols. 8 & 9. Highly readable correspondence to her daughter the Comtesse of Grignan. Covers all aspects of the life of a gentlewoman in the time of the Sun King, from a house fire at the neighbours, to congratulations to her daughter on the birth of a son, to details of famous people of the day.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Compagnie des Libraires
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1775
- Place Published: Paris
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Good +
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
Vol. I - 370pg. Vol. II - 368pg. Vol. III - 342pg. Vol IV - 412pg. Vol V - 410pg. Vol. VI - 428pg. Vol.VII 423pg. incl. 42 pg. table of contents. Leather with gold line on edge of boards, on spine embellishments and title. Marbled endpapers and edges of pages. Scuffed, light cracking in the leather along the edges of all the spines, all corners bumped. Top of spines of vols 2,3 and 6 slightly chipped, vol. 5 missing top cm of leather on spine. Bottom of vol. 4 chipped. Spine "tome" label loose on vol. 4 and missing on vol. 6, title label missing on vols. 6 & 7. Small library label on inside front endpaper of each volume.