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A friend of Voltaire

MARMONTEL, [Jean-François].
Contes moraux.

Engraved title to each volume, 23 full-page plates after Gravelot engraved by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longeuil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez.

Engraved title to each volume, 23 full-page plates after Gravelot engraved by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longeuil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez.

Engraved title to each volume, 23 full-page plates after Gravelot engraved by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longeuil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez.

Engraved title to each volume, 23 full-page plates after Gravelot engraved by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longeuil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez.

Engraved title to each volume, 23 full-page plates after Gravelot engraved by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longeuil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez.



Paris, J. Merlin, 1765. 3 vols. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf with gilt coat of arms of ''The Society of writers to the Signet''. Engraved title to each volume, 23 full-page plates after Gravelot engraved by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longeuil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez. XVI, 345; (6), 376; (6), 312 , (3) pp.

First illustrated edition, second edition of this work by Jean-François Marmontel (1723-99), a friend of Voltaire and a contributor to the Encyclopédie. It was illustrated by Gravelot. The text first appeared in 1761.

Good set.- (Lacks portrait).
Cohen-De Ricci 686-687.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Literary History  Literature 

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