Choderlos de Laclos. - Les Liaisons dangereuses, or Letters - Lot 87

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Choderlos de Laclos. - Les Liaisons dangereuses, or Letters - Lot 87
Choderlos de Laclos. - Les Liaisons dangereuses, or Letters Collected in a Society, and published for the instruction of some others. By M. C..... De L... A Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris, chez Durand Neveu, 1782. 4 volumes in 12, bound in contemporary marbled basane, spine with ornate nerves, bronze green title and tomaison, chiselled edges, slight defects to the bindings, light spotting in the inner margins - 248 pp. ; 242 pp. ; 231 pp. ; 257 pp., [1 p.]. First edition with all the characteristics described by Max Brun, notably the presence of the page of "Essential mistakes to be corrected before reading" on the back of p. 257 of the last volume. If we believe the count of Tilly, Laclos wanted "to make a work which went out of the ordinary way, which made noise, and which would still reverberate on the earth when [it] will have passed there. "He succeeded: in 1782 alone, 16 different editions were published, and there are no longer any editions to this day. A nice copy of the original edition.
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