224 - SAINT-SIMON (Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of). — Memoirs (1716–1718). Additions to Dangeau’s Journal. VI.

SAINT-SIMON (Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of). — Memoirs (1716–1718). Additions to Dangeau’s Journal. VI. Edited by Yves Coirault. Paris, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1986. In-12, publisher’s softcover in full leather, spine decorated with gold fillets, Rhodoid. Sixth volume of the new edition of the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon, edited by Yves Coirault. It covers the years 1716 to 1718, during the Regency, and also includes the Additions to Dangeau’s Journal, a valuable supplement to the memoirist’s observations on the court and the political life of his time. Volume No. 130 of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, printed on June 18, 1986, on Bible paper from Papeteries Braunstein, by the Mame printing house in Tours. Bound in full leather, gilded with 23-karat fine gold, by Babouot in Lagny. Copy preserved under Rhodoid, without an illustrated dust jacket. Signs of wear, notably the residue of an adhesive label on the top of the spine, and some scuffing.