CRÉBILLON, Claude Prosper Jolyot de (1707--1777)
Les egaremens du cœur et de l'esprit, ou memoires de Mr de Meilcour. ...
A La Haye, chez Jean Neaulme,, 1758.
[16], 456 p. ; 16.1 cm. (12º)

Anonymous. By Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon fils). The dedicatory epistle is signed by the author to his father, the dramatist Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674--1762). Three parts in one volume with separate title-pages but the register and pagination are continuous. Originally published in 1736; Crébillon continued to work on the novel until 1738 but it was never completed.

Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on first free-endpaper John Soane / Aug: 8. 1792 / 0-2-0. Inscribed in pencil on front free-endpaper - 2 -This was a few weeks after Soane had acquired the freehold on 12 Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Binding C18th sprinkled sheep, gilt double-ruled spine, red morocco spine-label.

Reference Number 3769