104-DU DEFFAND (Marie de Vichy-Champrond, marquise). Letters to Horace Walpole, since Earl of Orford, written in the years 1766 to 1780; to which are appended letters from Madame Du Deffand to Voltaire, written in the years 1759 to 1775. Published after the originals deposited at Strawberry-Hill. New corrected edition. A Paris, Chez Treuttel et Würtz, 1812, 4 vols. in-8, LXXX-364 pp., 472 pp., 463 pp. and 468 pp., portrait, half-maroquin bleu nuit à coins, spine ribbed, gilt head (Champs). First French edition. The Marquise du Deffand had a salon in Paris frequented by scholars, writers, beaux esprits and all those who counted among the world's literati, such as Charles Hénault, President of the 1st Chamber of Investigations of the Paris Parliament and friend of the Queen, Diderot and d'Alembert, Montesquieu, Marmontel, writer, poet and playwright, Madame de Staal, née Delaunay, known as an epistolière, and many others. Her correspondence with Horace Walpole, the English writer and politician she fell in love with at the age of 70, is a mine of anecdotes about the society of her time. A fine copy. Ex-libris Brayat. Spine a little faded.