8vo. xxii, [2], 203pp, [5]. With a half-title, an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further 12 chromolithograph plates, and 212 engraved illustrations in the text by Maurice Leloir. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, marbled boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and bumped, spine sunned. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp.

A handsome copy of the deluxe edition, limited to one hundred copies, of Boudet's 1885 printing of Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles' (1697-1763) controversial, remarkably popular romance novel, first published in 1731 as the seventh and final volume of Memoires et aventures d'un homme de qualite.