Lot no. 265
GRIMM - DIDEROT. LITERARY, PHILOSOPHICAL AND CRITICAL CORRESPONDENCE by Grimm, Diderot, Raynal, Meister, etc. Reviewed on the basis of the original texts, including [...] the fragments suppressed in 1813 by the censors, the unpublished parts preserved in the Gotha Ducal Library and at the Arsenal in Paris. Notes, notes, general table by Maurice Tourneux.
Paris, Garnier frères, 1877-1882.
16 volumes in-8, raspberry half-maroquin, covers and spine preserved, t. gilt (Bellevallée).
The best and most complete edition. A very fine copy, untrimmed and partly uncut, bound by Hoche Bellevallée, apprenticed to Yseux in Paris, then successor to Edmond Klein in 1946, who specialised in delicate and complicated bookbinding. One of 100 numbered copies on Hollande. (Vicaire III, 1138) (Fléty, p.21).
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