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CHAMFORT (Sébastien Roch Nicolas de). Oeuvres...

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CHAMFORT (Sébastien Roch Nicolas de). Oeuvres de Chamfort, recueillies et publiées par un de ses amis. A Paris, chez le Directeur de l'Imprimerie des Sciences et des Arts, an III de la République [1795]. 4 vols. in-8, 19th c. fawn half-calf, five-ribbed spine, red title-piece, green tomaison, crowned numeral repeated at tail of spines (spines faded, head-cap snagged, freckles, some ff. browned). First collection of Chamfort's works, compiled by publisher and literary critic Pierre-Louis Guiguené (1748-1816). A familiar book to Stendhal, whose personal copy of Volume 4, annotated, remains in the BnF.