Author: Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas
Title: Les Nuits de Paris Ou le Spectateur-Nocturne
Description: (Paris: Livre Club du Libraire), (1960). (1960). (Paris: Livre Club du Libraire), (1960). (1960). Very good. - Octavo, blue cloth with a black-and-white illustration mounted on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed. viii, 319 & [4] pages plus colophon. Full-page black-and-white facsimiles of illustrations & pages of text from the original edition. There is a previous owner's blind stamp on the flyleaf. Very good.

Copy 1382 of an edition of three thousand copies printed exclusively for members of the Livre Club du Libraire.

Restif de la Bretonne worked for eight years on his massive project which was first published in London in 1788. The introduction, notes and bibliography are by Henri Bachelin.

The text is in French. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; FRENCH LITERATURE; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH AUTHOR; 18TH CENTURY FRENCH AUTHOR; NICOLAS RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE; NUITS DE PARIS; HENRI BACHELIN; FACSIMILES; ILLUSTRATIONS.

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