LE PARADIS PERDU [Two volumes]
Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, rue du Foin S. Jacques, no. 11, 1792. First Edition Thus. Quartos, 2 volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full straight-grain red morocco. Newly rebacked in paneled red leather, two black labels with gilt lettering. Boards with gilt roll along edges, board edges, and turn-ins. Mint green endpapers. With both half-titles, lacking final blank leaf in volume 2. Consistent foxing throughout. Some plates with tissue-guards. Text in both English and French, verso English and recto French; Prose translation by N.F. Dupré de Saint-Maur, rev. by C.J. Chéron de Boismorand--cf. British Museum Catalogue. Also attrituted to Louis Racine - cf. Bibliothèque Nationale Catalogue.; "Vie de Milton," p. [i]-viii.; 12 figures engraved in color by Clement, Colibert, Denionchy and Gautier after Schall. Shelved case 0. More