QUÉRARD (J-M.) & A.-A. BARBIER. - Lot 207

QUÉRARD (J-M.) & A.-A. BARBIER. - QUÉRARD. Literary Deceptions Unmasked. A Gallery of French Writers from Throughout Europe Who Have Disguised Themselves Under Anagrams, Asteronyms, Cryptonyms, Acronyms, Literary Names, Witty or Bizarre Pseudonyms, etc.. Second, considerably expanded edition published by Gustave Brunet and Pierre Jannet. (3 volumes, in-8). Followed by: - BARBIER. Dictionary of Anonymous Works. Third edition, revised and expanded by Olivier Barbier, René, and Paul Billard. A continuation of the second edition of *Literary Deceptions*... (4 volumes, in-8). Paris, Paul Daffis, 1869–1870. 7 volumes in-8, contemporary red half-cloth, black sheepskin title label. VIII pp., [2 ff], 1,278 columns; [2 ff], 1,324 columns; [2 ff], 1,290 columns, [1 p]. And [2 ff], XLV pp, [1], 1,139 columns; [2 ff], 1,360 columns; [2 ff], 1,166 columns, [2 ff]; [2 ff], 1,410 columns. Spines worn, corners and edges scuffed, tears in the headbands, damage to the clasps of volume 5. Bindings faded, interior fresh. Working copy.