RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE Nicolas-Edme Lot n° 48

RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE Nicolas-Edmé The perverted peasant or the dangers of the city Amsterdam, at the expense of the Company, 1776, 8 parts in 4 volumes In-12°. Full contemporary speckled calf. Spines decorated with false nerves and gilt fleur. Brown calf title-pieces. Double gilt thread and gilt corner fleur. on the boards. Red pages. Counterfeit of the original edition published the same year. Rives Childs, in his bibliography of Restif's works, states on p. 234: "The text is identical with the original edition and contains 252 letters, correctly numbered. In our copy, the table of letters of T.IV has been bound at the time at the head of T.II. The inner title page of part 4 (T.II) has not been bound in. Sporadic foxing and staining in each volume. A fine copy in a well preserved contemporary binding.