[PRÉVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANÇOIS, Abbé.] Mémoires et Avantures d'un Homme de Qualité, qui s'est retiré du Monde. 8 parts in 2 volumes, bound in 4. 12mo, contemporary mottled sheep, flat spines attractively gilt with floral tooling and morocco lettering pieces, minor worming at bottom of Volume 1 and 2 spines; light dampstain in upper outer corner of opening leaves in last volume; marbled edges. Paul Proux bookplates. The Hague: M. G. Merville & J. Vander Kloot, 1757
Early edition of Prevost's fictitious autobiographical narrative to which is appended the classic love story, Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, which appeared originally as the seventh volume of the main work in 1731 and separately in numerous editions from 1732 onward, including the definitive version revised by the author in 1753. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 165.
