Author: ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY, AUTHOR OF TELEMACHUS [FRANçOIS FéNELON]
Title: Fables and Dialogues of the Dead
Description: London, For D. Browne et al, 1735, Third Edition, corrected. Hard Cover . "Written in French.And done into English From the Paris Edition of 1718, then Corrected and Revised with the Author's own Original Manuscript." 12mo. nice early calf with red morocco lettering piece and floral gilt in five further compartments, boards with two-line gilt rules, viii + 424pp. decorated head and tailpieces, initials. Endpapers with some wear and light staining, split over hinges, boards holding very firm on cords; contents only lightly tanned, and with minimal foxing and very minor marginal staining. Early ownership signature at first free endpaper, "Mary-Cholmondely's Book". With only fairly mild rubbing at binding (light loss at head of spine) a reasonably nice copy.

Keywords: Antiuarian Eighteenth Century Advice to King Moral Improving Literature Philosophy Cambrai Bindings French Translations


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