Dictionnaire d’Anecdotes (1773, two volumes in one)

Full leather, de Prezel's collection of anecdotes and bon-mots etc

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Nouvelle Édition augmentée (New expanded edition). Two volumes in one (complete). Hardback, bound in full leather, with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title label to spine. 17 × 10cm, [2] 327pp, 355pp, (3pp index). French text.

Full title: Dictionnaire d’Anecdotes, de Traits Singuliers et Caractéristiques, Historiettes, Bons Mots, Naïvetés, Saillies, Réparties Ingénieuses, &c. &c.

Bookplate of Bramshill to the front pastedown (the Cope family of Bramshill House in Hampshire)

An 18th-century French miscellany dictionary of lighthearted anecdotes, witty remarks, famous retorts, and historical traits organized alphabetically.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition for age.

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