12mo. [4], 35 [i.e. 355]pp, [1]. Parallel French and English text. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf. Heavily rubbed, upper joint split, loss to head and foot of spine. Hinges exposed, scattered foxing.

An early eighteenth-century edition a parallel-text French and English edition of a popular manual on conversation, first published in English in English in 1691, written, despite the spurious claims of the subheading, by Pierre d'Ortigue de Vaumorière (1610-1693). Five editions appeared prior to 1750, the majority attributing the text to Richelieu.