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LACLOS, PIERRE AMBROISE FRANÇOIS CHODERLOS DE. Les liaisons dangereuses. Lettres recueillies dans une société, et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. 2 volumes. 15 engraved plates after Charles Monnet, Marguerite Gerard & Fragonard fils. 415; [iv], 398 pages. 8vo, later crimson levant by Stroobants, gilt-bordered and -paneled covers, gilt-lettered and -decorated spine and turn-ins, joints rubbed and tender, spines sunned; all edges gilt; scattered light foxing. Ex-collection Ross Ambler Curran, with his bookplate. London [but Paris]: 1796
Nicely bound set of the illustrated edition, regular issue on laid paper. "Laclos's epistolary novel offers spectacular opportunities for illustration, which are firmly grasped in this edition. Monnet's plates dominate the first volume, Mlle. Gerard's the second ... They are not likely to be superseded, however often this celebrated novel is illustrated"--Ray, French 82; Cohen-de-Ricci 235.
