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Buillon, in the employ of the Typographic Society, 1778. 3 vols. In 8°. Half-title, copperplate vignette on the title page and frontispiece in each volume (in vol. I there is a portrait on the frontispiece), and 55 copperplates outside the text, contemporary marbled calf binding, boards framed, smooth spine stamped in gilt, title within a red label, marbled edges, minor defects. Ownership stamp on the title pages. § Maffei, S. La Merope. Tragedy. With Annotations by the Author, and with his Response to the Letter of Mr. Voltaire . Verona, Dionigi Ramanzini, 1745. In 4°. Copperplate engraved frontispiece, copperplate vignette on the title page, contemporary hard parchment binding.
Specialist Notes
First edition of this beautiful collection of works, with the plate opposite p. 122 of Vol. II depicting the escape from the monkeys in Candide in the version with the two naked women. Cohen 1038; Bengesco 1522. Brunet V, 17235.
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