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Lettres sur les spectacles. Paris, Boudet, Butard, Saillant & Nyon, la Veuve Desaint, 1774. 2 vols. in-12, in continuous pagination. Full contemporary calf, gilt arms in the centre of the boards, gilt fillet with fleur-de-lys in the corners, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title page, gilt lettering. First edition in two volumes, increased by the Histoire des ouvrages pour ou contre les Théâtres. >Bound with the arms of Jules Mazarin. This is a work printed after the death of the cardinal given as a prize to the Collège des Quatre-Nations at the Collège Mazarin, one can still find on many books decorated with this iron a handwritten mention indicating the name of the awarded student with the date of the prize distribution. O.H.R. pl. 1530, n°4. Dull corners. Rubbing to the jaws and to the box.

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