POMPADOUR. [Barbé-Marbois (François, Marquis de)]: - Letters of the Marchioness of Pompadour: From MDCCXLVI to MDCCLII inclusive.

London: Sold by T. Cadell..., 1771 - 1772 3 volumes. 12mo, 158 x 97 mms., pp. xii, 176; [[ii], 151 [152 blank, 153 - 167, 168 blank]; [xii], 176, attractively bound in red morocco, with gilt roll borders surround a panel with gilt ornaments at each corners, spines ornately gilt to a lyre motif, black leather labels; joints and extremities a little rubbed, but a very good set, with the bookplate of William Thomson in each volume, and his autograph on the recto of the front free paper in each volume. The authenticity of the letters provoked doubts by the English reviewers, with The Monthly Review asserting that "We have our suspicions" but could not prove the letters to be forgeries, but "We grant, however, if these letters are forged, they are wrought by the hand of an artist; that the workmanship is rare; and that if it be not the manufacture of the person whose name is stamped upon it, it may, perchance, be something better."

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