LACLOS (Pierre Choderlos de)
Les Liaisons dangereuses, ou Lettres recueillies dans une Société, & publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. Amsterdam; Et se trouve à Paris, Durand Neveu, 1782. 4 volumes in-12, marbled calf, spine decorated with gilt fillets, red title page, red edges (period binding).
Edition of the original date, known as "à la roue dentée", corresponding to the C edition described by Max Brun in his Bibliographie des éditions des Liaisons dangereuses bearing the date 1782 (1963, pp. 13-16).
From the Gérard de Berny library (engraved armorial bookplate).
Tears to leaves C12 (formerly restored) and H12 of volume II. Browning on endpapers. Restorations to binding (head and spine), rubbing to spine.
