[PRÉVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANÇOIS, Abbé.] Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut. [4], 11, [1], 302; [2] (of [4]), 252 pages, including half-title in the first volume, lacking in the second. 2 volumes. 12mo, 161x96 mm, later 18th-/early 19th century leather, misdated on spines, spines and periphery of covers darkened; scattered marginal foxing and minor stains, soiling on half-title and insignificant worming in blank outer margins of gathering A in Volume 1, contemporary signature and stamp on page 1 in Volume 2. Booklabels of the biographer Lytton Strachey. Amsterdam: aux Dépens de la Compagnie, 1753
Unillustrated piracy of the author's definitive edition of the same year. Prevost's classic love story was first published as the final volume of his Mémoires et Avantures d'un Homme de Qualité in 1731 and separately in numerous editions from 1732 onward. Tchemerzine (1977) V, 222 note.
