Brunet, IV, col. 867 ; Tchemerzine-Scheler, V, pp. 217-218, b ; En fran\u00e7ais dans le texte, n\u00b0 144 ; V. de Diesbach, Six si\u00e8cles de litt\u00e9rature fran\u00e7aise. XVIIIe si\u00e8cle. Biblioth\u00e8que Jean Bonna, n\u00b0 111 H ; Harrisse, Bibliographie de Manon Lescaut, Paris, 1877, p. 10, A, et p. 49, n\u00b0 3 ; M. Brun, \u201cContribution bibliographique sur les \u00e9ditions des M\u00e9moires et avantures d’un homme de qualit\u00e9 et de Manon Lescaut publi\u00e9es du vivant de l’abb\u00e9 Pr\u00e9vost\u201d, in : Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, Paris, 1960, pp. 329-388 ; A. Holland, Manon Lescaut, Gen\u00e8ve, 1984, pp. 10-23.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of <\/span>Manon Lescault<\/span><\/i>, one of the great books of French literature, bound for Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau.<\/span><\/p>\n Copy of the issue “A\u201d according to Harrisse, Brun and Holland (copper-engraved title vignette for titles of parts I, III, V et VII, and woodcut vignette on titles to parts II, IV et VI ; only parts V to VII have a half-title, as indicated by the bibliographers).<\/p>\n Parts I to IV were first published in 1728 and 1729. Volumes V to VII appeared in Amsterdam in 1731, where the author had taken refuge. The Compagnie des libraires d’Amsterdam republished the first four volumes at the same time in order to form a homogeneous whole.<\/p>\n A very fine copy of this rare edition bound with the arms of Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1675-1740) was ma\u00eetre des requ\u00eates in 1698, intendant des finances in 1701 and conseiller d’\u00c9tat in 1714 under Louis XIV, then contr\u00f4leur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des finances from 1726 to 1730. His library was sold at auction in 1741.<\/p>\n Provenance : Michel-Robert Le Peletier des Forts, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1675-1740; his sale, Paris, 1741, lot 1418, 8 livres 10 sols) – unidentified bookplate with the monogramm ‘RS’ in the first volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 7 parts in 4 volumes, 12mo (131 x 77 mm) 2 nn.ll., 218 pp., 1 nn.l. (blank) for part I; 1 nn.l., 173 pp. for part II; 232 pp. for part III ; 2 nn.ll. (first blank), 221 pp. for part IV; 4 nn.ll. (half-title indicating “M\u00e9moires\u2026. Tome V”), 288 pp. for part V; 2 nn.ll. (half-title indicating “M\u00e9moires\u2026 tome VI”), 283 pp. for part VI; 2 nn.ll. (half-title indicating “M\u00e9moires\u2026 tome VII”) 344 pp. for part VII. Contemporary speckled calf, central coat of arms of Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts (OHR, 893, tool 3), spine gilt with raised bands, res speckled edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1245,1270,1267,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-78359","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-18th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-armoured","9":"product_tag-binding","10":"product_tag-first-edition","11":"pa_auteur-prevost-dexiles-antoine-francois-dit-labbe-prevost-2","12":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Antoine Fran\u00e7ois, dit l'abb\u00e9 Pr\u00e9vost PR\u00c9VOST D'EXILES","chapeau":"The first complete edition\r\nin a nice armorial binding","adresse_bibliographique":"Amsterdam, Aux d\u00e9pens de la Compagnie, 1731","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n