PICARD, Louis-Benoît. ~ Les Aventures de Senneville et Guillaume Delorme, écrites par Eugène en 1787... Paris: Mame frères, 1813.
4 vols, 12mo (180 × 108 mm), pp. viii, 320; [4], 347, [1]; [4], 332; [4], 300, complete with half-titles. Uncut in original printed pink wrappers, titles to upper covers, glove device to the lower. Spines faded and slightly frayed, but an excellent, unsophisticated copy.
First edition, preserved in original wrappers, of this popular and critically-acclaimed roman de moeurs. It was widely-read around Europe and, interestingly, appeared on the advert leaves of numerous English books (in its original French). The Quarterly Review commented: ‘M. Picard is well known to be the most celebrated dramatic writer in France. The French Critics have pronounced this to be one of the best novels that has appeared since Gil Blas’ (1815). Picard was variously a playwright, actor, novelist, poet and musical director in Paris.