First thus. 110pp with frontispiece. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. Signed by the translator on the front free endpaper. 8vo. Sun-faded spine and top edge of front board. Lightly bumped and rubbed extremities. Text block edges just starting to tan. Rippling to front pastedown. Water stain to top corner of first few pages. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
This volume is one of a new series of French texts, comprehensive in scope and catholic in taste, with subject matter ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The series is designed to meet the needs of pupils in the sixth forms of grammar and public schools and also of University students reading for General or Honours degrees in French. Translated by T E Lawrenson
