Prévost, L'Abbé. Manon Lescaut. C. Marpon et E. Flammarion. 26, rue Racine, près l'Odéon. Paris. [1892].

Histoire de Manon Lescaut et le Chevalier des Grieux par l'Abbé Prévost. Édition illustrée par Tony Johannot. Complete in two volumes.  344 printed pages in total in both volumes. Text in French. 16 fine engraved plates, plus several text illustrations. Edges untrimmed. Volume 2 with a near contemporary ink inscription on the half-title page, dated 1911. 52 x 75 mm. Original buff printed paper wrappers. Back covers advertising three more titles from the series, Bibliothèque Miniature, Saint-Pierre's 'Paul et Virginie', Fontaine's 'Fables' and Pellico's 'Mes Prisons'. Some age-toning, mild creases and acceptable minor wear. Houghton, 502. Welsh, 5853. OCLC, 458156320. WorldCat locates just one copy worldwide (Bibliothèque Nationale de France). This tragic love story was banned in France upon publication and yet is the most reprinted book in French literature. Very early example of photo-lithography that reduced the size of the print for a miniature sized book but maintained extremely fine clarity of the text. This technique was also adopted by David Bryce & Son in Glasgow at about the same time and underpinned the most prolific period of miniature book publishing that ensued. Uncommon, particularly in the original wrappers.