first edition Hardcover
1795 [1880] · London
by Sade, Marquis de
London: Aux depens de la compagnie, 1795 [1880]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 453 pages. In Very Good condition. Quarter bound in green cloth with silk marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing and shelfwear to head and tail of spine with stray dark possible ink marks above title. Fading of cloth boards along hinges of spine. Bumping to paper fore-edges exposing boards and chipping along top and bottom edges of front and back paper covers. Age-toning to textblock. Small ink marks to top left of first free edge. Slight separation between first free edge and half-title page at gutter. Tanning with intermittent light soiling (truncated)