LOAISEL DE TREOGATE (Joseph-Marie). Thus end the... Lot 1709

LOAISEL DE TREOGATE (Joseph-Marie). Thus end the great passions; or Last loves of the knight of ... Paris, Poinçot, 1787. 2 volumes in one vol. in-12, half brown basane with corners, smooth spine decorated with garlands, gilt fleuron and dancer, brick title page, yellow tr. (binding of the time). Cuts and corners rubbed. Unique edition of this small pre-romantic novel, having influenced Chateaubriand for ATALA. Loaisel's prose, full of melancholy and despair, contrasts with the post-Rousseauist optimism of those years. (Cioranescu, XVIII, 40 712.) Manuscript bookplate Philip F. Rothlieb. Bookplate Birger Lundell, of Stockholm, pasted on the first endpapers.