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Lot n° 16

LACLOS (Choderlos de)

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The Dangerous Liaisons. Letters collected in a society, and published for the instruction of some others by C***, of L***. London (Paris) 1796 (1812). Two volumes in-8 (22x14 cm), half red long-grained morocco (a little rubbed). 415 pages, frontispiece and seven engravings. 398 pages, frontispiece and six engravings. Copy on vellum, all margins, fifteen beautiful full-page engravings before the letter, made after drawings by Fragonard fils, Monnet and Mademoiselle Gérard. Three of the figures are mounted again (two in volume I and one in volume II). Counterfeit of the 1812 edition identical to that of 1796, except for variants on the title page