MANNE (de), Edmond-Denis. Galerie historique des comédiens fraçois de la troupe de Voltaire. Gravés à l'eau-forte, sur des documents authentiques par Henri Lefort. Avec des détails biographiques inédits, recueillis sur chacun d'eux.
Lyon, N. Scheuring, 1877.

In-8 (224 x 147 mm), (1) f., VIII-424 pp., (2) f.
Full red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, spine with false nerves with gilt stippling, richly decorated boxes, gilt title, place and date, double gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges, interior roulette (Chambolle-Duru).

New, corrected and expanded edition.
It contains 41 biographies and portraits of actors, etched by Henri Lefort, including the portrait of Voltaire in the frontispiece.

Small superficial defect to the spine of the first board, otherwise a superb copy.
From the library of A. Pascalis and Newton Hall Cambridge; their bookplates.