MORDAUNT. Sketches of Life Characters and Manners in Various Countries; Including the Memoirs of a French Lady of Quality. Three Volumes
1800008141London: G. G. and J. Robinson 1800. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Three volumes in contemporary mottled calf black morocco title labels and small red morocco volume labels with gilt decorations back remnants of small prior owner labels front paste downs. Very Good light rubbing at corners moderate toning. "Moore was a man of the pre-revolutionary eighteenth-century world and he describes that world and the irruption into it of revolutionary types with few prejudices and few illusions but with a sustained dry humour and a crisp ironical touch which me meet again only in Jane Austen." W.L. Renwick. Block p.165. Summers p.428. A handsome and well-bound set. G. G. and J. Robinson Hardcover
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