Crébillon, Oeuvres complettes, Paris, 1785, 3 volumes, green morocco gilt by Derome, with his ticket

Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Oeuvres complettes... nouvelle édition, augmentée & ornée de belles gravures. Paris: les libraires associés, 1785

3 volumes, 8vo (218 x 140mm.), LARGE PAPER COPY, half-titles, woodcut headpieces, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 9 engraved plates after Marillier EACH IN TWO STATES (avec et avant la lettre), with final blank leaf in volumes 1 and 3, green morocco gilt by Derome with his ticket dated 1785, triple gilt fillet border, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, tiny hole in H8 of vol.2, lower cover of vol.2 and upper cover (and first few leaves) of vol. 3 water-damaged, spines slightly faded, extremities slightly rubbed

With the price code of the bookseller Guillaume-Luc Bailly, "Eop" (i.e. 84 livres), written at the foot of the rear flyleaf. For other bindings by Derome with similar spine decoration, see Erick Aguirre, "Le libraire Guillaume-Luc Bailly et l'atelier Derome le Jeune", Bulletin du bibliophile (2018), 129-172, p.143, the central two spines showing the same roll toll and small cross stamp.

LITERATURE

Cohen-De Ricci 263-264 (mentioning a copy bound in green morocco by Derome and with both states of the plates, the Portalis-Lion-Oulmont copy)