RESTIF de La BRETONNE (N.-E.): The Life of my Father. By the - Lot 52

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RESTIF de La BRETONNE (N.-E.): The Life of my Father. By the - Lot 52
RESTIF de La BRETONNE (N.-E.): The Life of my Father. By the Author of the Perverted Peasant. Neuchâtel et Paris, chez esprit, 1779. 2 parts in 1 volume in-12 (16,4 x 10,2 cm - Height of margins : 160 x 90 mm) of (2)-232 and 222-(4) pages. 13 hors-texte figures (lacking the frontispiece of volume 1) + portrait vignette in medallion on each title page. Bound in full brown speckled basane, spine smoothly decorated, number stamped in the centre of the boards (some restorations to the binding, some foxing and light spotting, last ff of volume 1 re-enlarged). Original second edition. There are two printings of the edition dated 1779 (the first came off the presses at the end of 1778 and the next, almost identical, came off a few months later). This one corresponds more or less to the description given by Rives Childes of the second edition with a few unmarked differences including the name of the printer. Rare copy in a contemporary binding with an unidentified figure.
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