Dictionnaire des Gens du Monde, a l'Usage de la Cour et de la Ville; with: With: A New Dictionary for the Fashionable World, Translated from the French London: For the Author, 1820

by Alexandre Baudouin

$2,500 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

Paris: Alexis Eymery & Baudouin Frères, 1818. Twelvemo, measuring 7.25 x 4 inches: xvi, 215, 8 . Original pink pictorial wrappers backed with printer’s waste, frontispiece engraving, eight-page bookseller catalogue at rear, text block uncut. Inked flourishes in margins by selected entries, annotation to “apothicaire” definition. Lightest shelfwear, shallow loss to wrappers at foot of spine. With:

• Binding: Wrappers

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