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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (N. E.). LE PAYSAN PERVERTI, ou Les Dangers de la ville. Printed in La Haie and found in Paris, Lejay & Mérigot jeune, 1776. Eight parts in 4 volumes in-12 ½ polished midnight-blue chagrin, ornate ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt head (Later binding). T. I: [fleurondudu titre : chapeau de berger et flûte entrelacés] (4) ff. d'Analyses placées entre le titre et celui du 1er f. de la préface, VI-290 pp. - Vol. II: [title finial: two doves pecking at each other, quiver, torch, twigs] 316 pp. - Vol. III: [title finial: foliage] 244 pp. - Vol. IV: [title finial: vase, ornaments and tree leaves] 204 pp. Upper part of first 38 pages of vol. II browned. PROBABLE COUNTERFEIT, nevertheless very close to the edition considered original described by Rives Childs and to the "second edition" described by Lacroix (after the one of "1775", which he claims never to have seen): it contains 255 LETTERS, followed by the Statutes of the town of Oudun (pp.171 to 191) and an additional LETTER (pp. 191/192) entitled Lettre (suposée) d'Edmond, à Madame Parangon, the 256th and last letter in the collection. The pagination of the volumes corresponds to the bibliographies of Rives Child and Lacroix, except for the pagination of vol. 4, which comprises 204 pp. including tables, instead of the 200 pp. (including tables) announced by the bibliographers. The 4 unfoliated pages containing the Analyses de quelques Ouvrages dont il y a nombre chés les Libraires désignés (Analyses of a number of works by the booksellers listed at the end of these Analyses), the Liste des ouvrages de l'Auteur (List of the Author's Works) and the notice sur Le Fin-Matois (Notice on Le Fin-Matois), which should be at the end of vol. 4, have been bound in at the head of vol. 1 between the title page and the paginated III/IV page (Publisher's Preface). The fleurons on the title pages of all 4 volumes correspond to those described by Rives Childs and Lacroix, except for the "traits" announced in t. III, which are missing from our copy. The foliation defects described by Rives Childs are not present in our copy. VERY PRETTY EXEMPLAIR in an elegant binding from the last quarter of the 19th century. ¶ Rives Childs, 226, XIV-1 - Lacroix, who does not mention an edition with the address Lejay & Mérigot jeune.
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (N. E.). LE PAYSAN PERVERTI, ou Les Dangers de la ville. Printed in La Haie and found in Paris, Lejay & Mérigot jeune, 1776. Eight parts in 4 volumes in-12 ½ polished midnight-blue chagrin, ornate ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt head (Later binding). T. I: [fleurondudu titre : chapeau de berger et flûte entrelacés] (4) ff. d'Analyses placées entre le titre et celui du 1er f. de la préface, VI-290 pp. - Vol. II: [title finial: two doves pecking at each other, quiver, torch, twigs] 316 pp. - Vol. III: [title finial: foliage] 244 pp. - Vol. IV: [title finial: vase, ornaments and tree leaves] 204 pp. Upper part of first 38 pages of vol. II browned. PROBABLE COUNTERFEIT, nevertheless very close to the edition considered original described by Rives Childs and to the "second edition" described by Lacroix (after the one of "1775", which he claims never to have seen): it contains 255 LETTERS, followed by the Statutes of the town of Oudun (pp.171 to 191) and an additional LETTER (pp. 191/192) entitled Lettre (suposée) d'Edmond, à Madame Parangon, the 256th and last letter in the collection. The pagination of the volumes corresponds to the bibliographies of Rives Child and Lacroix, except for the pagination of vol. 4, which comprises 204 pp. including tables, instead of the 200 pp. (including tables) announced by the bibliographers. The 4 unfoliated pages containing the Analyses de quelques Ouvrages dont il y a nombre chés les Libraires désignés (Analyses of a number of works by the booksellers listed at the end of these Analyses), the Liste des ouvrages de l'Auteur (List of the Author's Works) and the notice sur Le Fin-Matois (Notice on Le Fin-Matois), which should be at the end of vol. 4, have been bound in at the head of vol. 1 between the title page and the paginated III/IV page (Publisher's Preface). The fleurons on the title pages of all 4 volumes correspond to those described by Rives Childs and Lacroix, except for the "traits" announced in t. III, which are missing from our copy. The foliation defects described by Rives Childs are not present in our copy. VERY PRETTY EXEMPLAIR in an elegant binding from the last quarter of the 19th century. ¶ Rives Childs, 226, XIV-1 - Lacroix, who does not mention an edition with the address Lejay & Mérigot jeune.
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