[Duclos, de Caylus, de Surgères...] - Lot 100

[Duclos, de Caylus, de Surgères...] Les Confessions du Comte de **. Slnd (no title page), 2 volumes in-16 bound in full green morocco, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, filleted edges, gilt edges. Two handwritten leaves bound at the head provide information on the authors of these Confessions: "A literary society composed of courtly men, more friends of pleasure than of glory... obliged by certain external decorum, these people sought a figurehead to pass off their works; as they wished Duclos well, they put on his account what they thought should do him honor, and it succeeded". Enclosed: - Alessandro TASSONI. Le Seau enlevé, poème héroï-satiro-comique. Paris, Le Prieur, 1758-1759, 3 volumes in-12 bound in full contemporary basane, smooth spines decorated in the grotesque style, double title-piece, gilt fillet framing the boards.