A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters (Four Volume Set) collection With the brown paper dust-jacket

With the brown paper dust-jacket featuring a Dulac illustration laid down within a brown square border and stylised title lettering and ornaments

The present map was made in the first half of World War II

also rear endpaper and the occasional light foxing to other pages

White cloth with black imprinted signature across the front

This is a rare pairing

A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters (Four Volume Set) collection With the brown paper dust-jacketLondon : W. Strahan and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1779; 1781. Second edition. The first two volumes were published in 1779, vols 3 and 4 published 1781. 8vo. xvi, 451; xv, 440; xv, 518, (11); xii, 502, (8) pp. Uniformly bound in full calf with titles and volume numbers inked on to spine with a neat hand. Section of p55 56 torn out with minor loss of text. Hinges tender, esp. on vol. 3, spines rubbed and worn at foot of vol 3. Ownership name of "John