SÉVIGNÉ (Madame de). Recueil des lettres. Avignon, Chambeau, 1804. 10 volumes in-12, new edition enlarged with a précis of Madame de Sévigné's life and reflections on her letters by Vauxcelles and illustrated with 2 engraved portraits of Françoise Marguerite de Sévigné, Comtesse de Grignan and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné. Bound in full contemporary basane raciné, smooth ornate spine, pink title page, round pink tomaison page on green background. (small wormhole in the eighth volume affecting the text on the last few leaves, damage to the covers of volumes 1 and 9, spine unstained, binding rubbed). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio