Essai sur les Maladies des Gens du Monde
first edition paperback
1770 · Lausanne
by TISSOT, [Simon Auguste André David]
Lausanne: Francois Grasset, 1770. First. paperback. very good. xiv, 212, (4) pages. Small 8vo, contemporary marbled wrappers with manuscript spine label (paper on spine is mostly missing but still firmly sewn; pages quite clean). Lausanne: Francois Grasset, 1770. First Edition. Very good. First published in the spring of 1770, this book of advice to "people of fashion", particularly women, had such an immediate vogue that many pirated editions soon followed. -- Norman 2083; Blake 452. (Inventory #: 262898)