The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère Newly Rendered into English by Henri Van Laun With an introduction, A Biographical Memoir and Notes by La Bruyere, Jean de - 1885

George Routledge, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. No edition remarks. 494 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white portraits. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Many page corners folded. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has slight forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed.

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London: John Nimmo, 1885. hardcover. Translated by Henri Van Laun. 24 etchings by B. Damman and V. Foulquier, 7 full page with tissue guards. 494pp. 8vo, 3/4 tan morocco; (spine rubbed, internally fine). London: John Nimmo, 1885. Very good (+).<br/><br/> Handsomely illustrated edition of fictional character studies based on actual people. One of 300 numbered copies.<br/><br/>

London: John Nimmo, 1885. hardcover. very good(+). Translated by Henri Van Laun. 24 etchings by B. Damman and V. Foulquier, 7 full page with tissue guards. 494 pages. Thick 8vo, 3/4 burgundy morocco; (spine lightly faded with 2 small spots, one corner rubbed, internally fine). London: John Nimmo, 1885. Very good(+).<br/><br/> Handsomely illustrated edition of fictional character studies based on actual people. One of 300 numbered copies.<br/><br/>

New York: Scribner & Welford, John C. Nimmo, London [Ballantyne Press], 1885. One of 300 copies printed. This is number 46. 24 Etchings by B. Damman and V. Foulquier, plates on tissue tipped in. 1 vols. 8vo. Black morocco, gilt cornerpieces. Upper joint neatly repaired, some light rubbing and light offsetting, else a good, handsome copy of this work. One of 300 copies printed. This is number 46. 24 Etchings by B. Damman and V. Foulquier, plates on tissue tipped in. 1 vols. 8vo. This was originally published in 1688 as "Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec, avec les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle." The original contributions by La Bruyère are primarily observations on character and conduct describing portraits of people and their failings, many were thinly disguised descriptions of living people. It was first translated into English in 1699 and is credited with greatly having influenced the English essayists of that time.