Lettres a M. de Malesherbes. Préface et notes par Gustave Rudler

London: The Scholartis Press, 1928. First edition, limited to 975 copies, 8vo, pp. 62, [2]; quarter orange cloth over patterned paper-covered boards, corners lightly bumped, fine. This copy with a 1951 inscription from the publisher, Eric Partridge to Professor John W. Clark, his friend and sometimes collaborator at the University of Minnesota, and appropriately enough for this title, an inscription in French: "Homme de lettres, homme d'ésprit cet examplaire d'un livre presque epuisé - et d'un livre à texte étable et amité, par son ami, Eric Partridge..." A critical edition of the famous letters made accessible in a single volume for the first time since the 18th century." (Inventory #: 52302)