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XVIII Century French Romances (12 volumes complete, limited and printed at Curwen Press): The Fairy Doll (La Poupée); The Opportunities of a Night (La Nuit et le Moment); The Queen of Golconda and other tales; Angola: An Eastern Tale; Rameau's Nephew and other works; The Prophet's Cousin (Le Cousin de Mahomet); The Masked Lady (Le Masque); All the Better for Her!; The Coachman's Story; Spleen and other stories; A Thousand and one Follies and His Most Unlooked-For Friendship; Never Again! (Point de Lendemain) and other stories
by Holland, Vyvyan, ed. Jean-Galli de Bibiena, M.de Crébillon le Fils (intro by Aldous Huxley), Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers, Jacques-Rochette de la Morliere, Denis Diderot, Nicolas Fromaget, Joseph Durey de Sauroy, Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon, Anee-C
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, printed at the Curwen Press, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Printed at the Curwen Press, 1925-1928, 12 vols, each limited to 1000 numbered copies (various numbers), cloth backed decorated boards, each volume Very good plus, no dust jackets, crisp corners, gilt fairly bright on spines, contents very good, handsome printings, light offsetting to endpapers and each with old bookplate (S. Gluckstein), light darkening or soil to top of spines and 'Angola' with very minor dent to tops of boards. Complete in twelve volumes, reprinting a number of now-obscure works in the French libertine tradition.
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- Title
- XVIII Century French Romances (12 volumes complete, limited and printed at Curwen Press): The Fairy Doll (La Poupée); The Opportunities of a Night (La Nuit et le Moment); The Queen of Golconda and other tales; Angola: An Eastern Tale; Rameau's Nephew and other works; The Prophet's Cousin (Le Cousin de Mahomet); The Masked Lady (Le Masque); All the Better for Her!; The Coachman's Story; Spleen and other stories; A Thousand and one Follies and His Most Unlooked-For Friendship; Never Again! (Point de Lendemain) and other stories
- Author
- Holland, Vyvyan, ed. Jean-Galli de Bibiena, M.de Crébillon le Fils (intro by Aldous Huxley), Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers, Jacques-Rochette de la Morliere, Denis Diderot, Nicolas Fromaget, Joseph Durey de Sauroy, Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon, Anee-C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall, printed at the Curwen Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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