BERNARDIN de SAINT-PIERRE Jacques-Henri. Paul et Virginie.
Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1789.

In-12 (133  x 96 mm), XXV-243 pp., (2) ff.
Paperback, contemporary paper cover with pink chevron geometric designs, untrimmed, slipcase.

Precious separate first edition in paperback, first published in 1788 in volume IV of the Études de la nature.
The edition exists on various papers, this one on fine ecu paper. Our copy is complete with the 4 engravings, the first three by Moreau le Jeune and the last by Vernet. Each is in duplicate, one trimmed and one untrimmed.

Some minor foxing and pagination of a few pages of the preface in the wrong order.
Tchemerzine, 149 ; Cohen, 931-932.