[IMBERT (Barthélemy)].
Les Bienfaits du sommeil ou les quatre rêves accomplis. Paris, Brunet, 1776. In-8 of 16 pp, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornamented spine, blue morocco lining decorated with a frame of gilt irons, blue moire endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, bordered case (Lortic fils). First edition, with a title-frontispiece and 4 figures by Moreau le Jeune engraved by Nicolas de Launay.
This poem is a real manifesto in favour of a liberal and modern policy, initiated by the return to business of the count of Maurepas.
A very fine copy in a fine lined binding by Marcellin Lortic.
From the Maurice Méric library, with bookplate.
Cohen, 508.