POUGENS. Trésor des origines, and Dictionnaire grammatical raisonné de la langue française. Specimen. Paris. Imprimerie Royale. 1819. 1 volume in-4, eggplant calf, spine decorated with foxing, crowned monogram on a piece of red morocco, framed by cold roulette, wide gilded gilded garland and inner cold roulette on the boards with corner finials. English binding signed Carroll. This is all that has appeared of the immense lexicographical work that occupied Pougens in his last years. years. He was unable to complete the great etymological dictionary he had set his sights on. The present work therefore bears the subtitle "specimen". Covers and spines restored.