Author: LOUIS XV. MOUFFLE d'ANGERVILLE:
Title: Vie Privée de Louis XV; ou Principaux Évémens, Particularités et Anecdotes de son Regne.
Description: A Londres, Chez John Peter Lyton, 1781. 4 volumes. 12mo, pp. viii, 398; [iv], 403 [404 blank]; [iv], 399 [400]; [iv], 391 [392 blank], including half-titles, engraved portrait and two other engraved portraits and engraved vignette on title-page in volume 1, 3 engraved portraits in volume 4, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spines, red and green leather labels; front cover volume 1 detached, front joints volumes three and four cracked, some other general wear to binding. This note from the publisher appears on the verso of the title-page of the first volume: "All the Editions of this Work, which might appear without the Vignette on the Tittle [sic], and the Portraits &c. ought to be looked upon as Incompleat, and no ways to be relayed [sic] on. London the 1. of December 1780. John Peter Lyton." In the above set, the vignette appears on the title-page of the first volume only; the other volumes have a pattern of ten ornaments in a triangle shape. ESTC locates three different continental editions in French. The above set conforms to the description of t113040, probably printed in Amsterdam. The other two continental imprints (t177185 "printed on the continent" and n062240 "?Paris") are clearly different printings.

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