Beautiful Volume In Two Volumes: “letters From Mr. Desprez De Boissy On Spectacles”. Paris . 1771.

This beautiful and interesting copy, the best on the subject in two distinct parts in a beautiful strong volume in 12, full calf, ribbed spine decorated with gilded irons, red morocco title, midnight blue marbled endpapers and edges: "Letters from M. Desprez From Boissy" Lawyer in Parliament on "Spectacles"; with a "History of Works for & against Theaters. Fourth Edition, revised, corrected & expanded by the Author. In Paris at: Butard, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue Saint Jacques, à la Vérité, Boudet Imprimeur-Libraire, rue Saint Jacques, Saillant & Nyon, Libraires rue Saint Jean de Beauvais and Dssaisnt Libraire rue du Foin 1771. With its two separate titles and continuous pagination of 673 pages, this work is a reference which has been published many times and which was successful because it concerns entertainment. In new condition, a beautiful book which takes us into a closed world in the Society of the "Age of Enlightenment"