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(GEN) With twenty thumbnail biographies and engraved portraits of people from the age of Louis XIV. Included are Fouquet, Mme de La Fayette, Madeleine de Scudery, and others. Each volumes also has one or more facsimile letters from the correspondence of Mme. de SÈvignÈ.||(CON) Vol I: [-]7, b-i8, k2, a-f8, g6, 1-208, [-]3, Contents.Vol II: [-]1, 1-298, 307, Contents.Vol III: [1]7, 2-308, [-]1, Contents.Vol IV: [1]7, 2-308, 304, Contents.Vol V: [1]7, 2-308, [-]2, Contents.Vol VI: [1]7, 2-308, [-]2, Contents.Vol VII: [1]7, 2-308, Contents.Vol VIII: [1]7, 2-318, [-]2, ContentsVol IX: [1]7, 2-338, 344, [-]2, ContentsVol X: [1]7, 2-418, 426, ContentsVol XI: [-]5, a-d8, 5-328, Contents.||(REF) Brunet V, 323; Vicaire Vii, 478-480; Six copies in RLG NUC||(PRV) Accession no. 1283: with the contemporary bookplate of Fritz Ponsonby||(PHY) Accession no. 1283: bound in full contemporary dark green morocco, spines gilt, inner gilt border. With center gilt Armorial emblems on front and rear covers, a.e.g.||(LAN) French