CRANSTOUN OF COREHOUSE COPY
Eloges de madame geoffrin...
Paris.
H. Nicolle, Librairie Stéréotype, 1812.
8vo.
[4], xxiv, 282pp, [2]. With a half-title. Contemporary mottled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting green calf lettering-piece, carmine edges. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting. From the recently dispersed family estate (by descent) of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), Scottish jurist, satirist, and friend of Walter Scott and Lord Monboddo, with his armorial bookplate to FEP.
The first edition of a selection of panegyrics exalting influential French Enlightenment salonnière Marie Thérèse Geoffrin (1699-1777).
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref: 34173
