CRÉBILLON, Claude Prosper Jolyot de, dit Crébillon fils. - Lot 147

CRÉBILLON, Claude Prosper Jolyot de, dit Crébillon fils. Collection complette des Œuvres de M. de Crébillon, Fils. London, 1777, 14 tomes in 7 in-12 volumes bound in full contemporary basane, ornate smooth spines, title and tomaison parts, some wear, one modern title. Collective edition of these licentious or satirical novels about the libertinism of 18th-century idle society. It contains his novels, plays and letters. Each part has its own title page. "The most complete edition, partly original, published during Crébillon fils's lifetime (1707-1777). First printed in 1772 by the Bouillon typographical society under the London address, it appeared again five years later with the same fictitious address." Tchemerzine II, 697. Ex-libris Sainte-Colombe.