£18.00
Title: Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame d’Epinay Ltd Volumes 2 and 3
Author: J H Freese (Translated by)
Publisher: H S Nichols Limited Edition to 500
Publication Date: c1899
Format: Hardback
Condition: Volume II-Covers are bumped at spine. some water damage to rear cover which has curled the bottom edge slightly. Rough-cut pages which remain uncut at top edge. portrait of Jean Jacques Rousseau to frontispiece. Frontispiece is water stained and the last 4-5 pages have some water staining to bottom edge.
Vol III-Bumped at spine ends. Water stained to rear cover which has curled slightly. Rough-cut pages which are clean and remain uncut at top edge. Picture of Le Baron de Grimm to frontispiece. Frontispiece has water stain
Book measures: 23.5cm x 16cm with 348 (vol II) and 356 (Vol III) pages
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These 1899 volumes represent the second and third installments of the rare “Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame d’Épinay,” published by H. S. Nichols Ltd. Translated by J. H. Freese, this set is part of a strictly limited edition of only 500 copies. The memoirs provide a sophisticated and candid window into the 18th-century French Enlightenment, detailing d’Épinay’s complex relationships with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Melchior Grimm. These volumes are essential for collectors looking to complete their sets or for historians focused on the intellectual salons of pre-revolutionary France and the evolution of women’s biographical writing.
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