Diderot, Denis.

Estimate

1,000 - 1,200 GBP

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Description

Jacques le Fataliste et son maître. Paris: chez Buisson, an cinquième de la République [1796]

2 volumes, 8vo (184 x 119mm.), half-titles, with certificate of authenticity on verso of the first signed by Buisson, early nineteenth-century calf-backed boards, a few light spots and stains, small portion of fore-margin of D8 & L1 (volume 1) torn away without loss, rebacked in calf tooled to period style

Literature

Tchemerzine ii 965

Catalogue Note

first edition. Inspired by Sterne's Tristram Shandy, this late work by Diderot was described by Goethe as a 'feast worthy of Baal'.