GALERIE FRANÇOISE ou Portraits des hommes et des femmes célèbres qui ont paru en France. Paris, Hérissant fils, 1771; 2 volumes in one large folio in contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilded motifs.
First edition. Collection of 40 OUT-OF-THE-LAY PORTRAITS ENGRAVED IN LETTER-SHAPES, most of them by contemporaries and drawn from life: Rameau, Moncrif, Marivaux, Mme de Graffigny, Boucher, the Regent, Mme du Châtelet, l'abbé Prévost... Published by J. B. Collet de Messine. Barbier names all authors.
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