12mo. xxxi, [1], 215pp, [1]. Bound by Carss & Co. of Glasgow in contemporary half-calf, green cloth boards. Rubbed, without lettering-piece. Very occasional spotting.

A translation into English from the fourth edition of Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugiere, Baron de Barante's (1782-1866) critical survey of French literature during the eighteenth-century.