[Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, madame de]

2 volumes, 12mo (152 x 89mm.), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, contemporary mottled calf gilt, arms of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour [Olivier 2399 fer 5] on sides, flat spines gilt, red edges, tear in text of C4 (vol.1), marginal worming in 8 leaves towards the end of vol. 1, upper margin of title to vol. 2 cropped without loss, rebacked, joints split

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AN ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF MADAME DE POMPADOUR, one of the greatest femmes-bibliophiles of the eighteenth century. The present edition still gives Madame de La Fayette's secretary, Segrais, as the author. Zayde is a collection of tales in the manner of the Grand Cyrus, but substitutes a Spanish setting and focuses on the unfortunate and unhappy aspects of love.