The Reflections and Maxims of Luc de Clapiers, Marquis of…

Clapiers’s collected aphorisms, with an essay and his famous correspondence with Volatire. Designed by Bruce Rogers for the Hesperides Series. One of 500 copies. Text in French and English, the English translations by F.G. Stevens. Printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. 12mo., [12.5 x 19 cms], original brown cloth, gilt decorations and lettering, t.e.g. Slight fading and mild rubbing to spine, minor offsetting on endpapers, otherwise a presentable copy.