GRESSET(Jean-Baptiste)

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GRESSET(Jean-Baptiste)
Works. In Paris, Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1811. 2 volumes in-8°, red half-marroquin with corners, gilt fillet bordering the plates, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head (Capé). Bound in fine of volume II: Le Parrain magnifique (Paris, Renouard, 1810) [93 pp. with proper pagination]. A portrait of the author by SAINT-AUBIN after NATTIER in the frontispiece of volume I and eight figures engraved by MOREAU LE JEUNE (including two in Le Parrain magnifique); culs-de-lampe. EXAMPLE ON VELINETTE COMPRISING THE FIGURES OF MOREAU BEFORE THE LETTER AND ENRICHED OF A SECOND FOLLOW-UP OF SEVEN ENGRAVINGS by the same artist (with the letter), a second state of the author's portrait by SAINT-AUBIN & NATTIER in the frontispiece of volume II (with the letter) and an additional figure by DESENNE & ROGER (t. I, pp. 6/7) and further comprising, folded, mitred and bound in limina, an L. A. S. de GRESSET to a minister (Amiens, 10 October 1754, 2pp. in-8). A few freckles, two cracked jaws from Volume I
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