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ALMANAC OF THE MUSES. Paris, Delalain then: Louis,...

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ALMANAC OF THE MUSES. Paris, Delalain [then: Louis], 1765-1798. 28 years in 16 volumes in-12, fawn calf, cold fillet, spine decorated with grotesque, fawn and red title and fawn and green tomaison, red edges (contemporary binding). The set includes the following years: 1765 to 1777, 1779 to 1786, 1789 to 1791, 1794 to 1795, and 1797 to 1798. The year 1790 contains the first edition of the first text by François-René de Chateaubriand, a poem composed at the age of 22 and entitled L'Amour de la campagne (pp. 205-206). Nice set in decorative binding, spine covered with horizontal chevrons. Small binding accidents