Sévigné. - Letters of Mme de Sévigné, to Madame de Grignan, - Lot 81

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Sévigné. - Letters of Mme de Sévigné, to Madame de Grignan, - Lot 81
Sévigné. - Letters of Mme de Sévigné, to Madame de Grignan, her daughter. Paris, year four [1796]. 6 volumes in-8, full shagreened calf, double frame of gilt roulettes on the boards, ornate smooth spines, red morocco parts, chiselled edges, inner roulette and gilt edges, small epidermures on 3 boards, 2 dull corners, 5 rubbed, scattered freckles - [2 ff.2 ff.], 501 pp; [2 ff.], 556 pp; [2 ff.], 573 pp; [2 ff.], 514 pp; [2 ff.], 544 pp; [2 ff.], 592 pp, frontispieces by Le Barbier engraved by Thomas (vol. 1 and 2), 4 vignettes h-t by Defraine engraved by Thomas (vol. 2, 3, 4, 5). These volumes were to form volumes IX to XIV of the Collection des meilleurs ouvrages françois, composés par des femmes, dédiée aux femmes françoises undertaken by Louise de Keralio in 1786, a sort of "monument to the glory of distinguished French women in literature", interrupted several times notably because of the Revolution. The last volume ends with a very interesting text "Eloge de Madame la Marquise de Sévigné" which won the prize of the academy of Montpellier in 1777 by the president Brisson. This edition is rare.
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