Douze Nouvelles, par Madame Is. de Montolieu, pou servir de suite a son recueil de contes. Tome Premier [-Quatrieme].

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FIRST EDITION. Four volumes, 12mo, pp. [ii], ii, 257, [1] Table; [ii], 269, [1] Table; [ii], 262, [1] Table, [1] blank; [ii], 260, [1] Table, [1] blank, [1] errata; minor foxing in places, otherwise clean throughout; bound in nineteenth century half green calf over marbled boards by John Winstanley of Manchester (with his the label on front free endpaper of each volume - see below), spines attractively tooled in gilt with fleur-de-lys device, and with red morocco labels lettered in gilt at head, minor evidence of worming to one joint, otherwise apart from some light surface soiling, a very desirable set. Scarce first edition of this collection of twelve tales by the Swiss novelist and translator, Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832). Titles amongst 'Le Douze Nouvelles' include 'Sophie ou l'Aveugle'; 'Eliza et Albert. Anecdote Suisse'; 'Le Petit Antoine et les rouges-gorges, imite de Sterke'; 'Les deux visites, les deux pasteurs et les deux nuits'; and 'L'Avalanche et le centaire des Alpes'. Montolieu penned a few original novels and over 100 volumes of translations, written in and translated to the French language, including the first French translation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (Raison et Sensibilité, ou Les Deux Manières d'Aimer) and Persuasion (La Famille Elliot, ou L'Ancienne Inclination). Her first novel, Caroline de Lichtfield, ou Mémoires d'une Famille Prussienne, was an influential instant best-seller in the 1780s and stayed in print until the mid nineteenth century. The present work is attractively bound by John Winstanley of Manchester, with his booklabel on front pastedown. Further details on the life and work of this interesting binder can be found at https://ashrarebooks.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/john-winstanley-of-manchester-bookbinder/ OCLC records three copies in North America, at Cornell, Princeton, and University of Victoria, and one the UK, at the Bodleian. N° de ref. del artículo 2190621

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