Collection Complete Des Oeuvres de Madame Riccoboni. A Neuchatel: De L'Imprimerie De La Societe' Typographique, 1773.
Complete Collection of the Works of Madame Riccoboni. In Neuchâtel: From the Printing House of the Typographical Society, 1773.
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A very scarce set, the first collected edition of Madame Riccoboni's oeuvre. She was a correspondent of David Hume and David Garrick, and associated with Voltaire. Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments ranked her with Voltaire, Racine, Richardson, and Marivaux as "one of the poets and romance writers who best paint the refinements of... private and domestic affections."
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Size: 126 x 198 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[(2), h.t., t.p., pp.5-408, (2)]; [(2), h.t., t.p., pp.5-407, (2)]; [(2), h.t., t.p., pp.5-403, (2)]; [(2), h.t., t.p., pp.5-336, (2)]; [(2), h.t., t.p., pp.5-370, (2)] [(2), h.t., t.p., v-x, pp.11-266, (2)].
Contemporary full calf with gilt tooling to the spines. Each volume retains its tooled red and olive morocco labels. Bindings a little rubbed with spines slightly sunned. Joints cracked on the second volume but with all boards of the set securely attached. No attached bookplates or ownership inscriptions, exceptionally clean throughout all of the text blocks. Indeed, the text of each of these volumes is in remarkably fine condition. An excellent set.
[OCLC 455838896].
