3 Beautiful Volumes In Quarto By Richard Stell: "the Spectator, Or The Modern Socrates," Translated From English, 1755

Three handsome volumes of this English gazette, translated from the works of Richard Stell, in three fine quarto volumes, full mottled calf, spines with raised bands decorated with gilt tooling in the compartments, red and olive morocco titles and volume numbers, marbled endpapers and edges: "The Spectator, or the Modern Socrates," where one sees a naive portrait of the manners of this century. Translated from the English. New edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. In Paris: Mérigot, father and son, Quai des Augustins, near Rue Gilles-Coeur; Hochereau the Elder, Quai Conti, opposite the descent from the Pont-Neuf, at the Phoenix; Robustel, Quai des Augustins, near Rue Pavée; Leloup, Quai and Grande Porte des Augustins, near Rue Dauphine. Brocas the Elder, at the Pavilion of the Four Nations. M. DCC. LV. (1755).