BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'UN HOMME DE GOÛT, ou tableau de... Lot 14

BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'UN HOMME DE GOÛT, ou tableau de la littérature ancienne et moderne, dans lequel the spirit of all the books that have appeared in all genres up to 1797; with a summary and impartial judgment on each work, and an indication of the different editions that have been in France and abroad. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. By a society of literary de lettres. PARIS, DESESSARTS, 1798 - 1799. Four volumes, each containing VIII pp., 380 pp, (2) ff. - 256 pp, (2) ff. - 267 pp., VIII pp. and 262 pp. half-bound in contemporary small-cornered basane basane. decorated and gilded smooth spines with red morocco title-piece and green morocco green morocco, with daffodil edges. Part of the spine of Volume II rebacked. A portrait of Desessarts is placed at the head of volume four. Later, a fifth volume was published, followed by a new edition entirely recast, corrected and largely expanded. Bookplates.