Four contemporary 8vo volumes in dark blue half chagrin bindings with spines lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed boards and slight rubbing to heads and foots of spines else a tight and well preserved set. With somewhat foxed text, but never very heavy. With four red medaillon portraits of women in red as frontispieces and in the text vignettes and cul de lamps in black. The work is divided in 27 "books". Front. , 399 p + Front. , (II), 383 p + Front. , (IV), 383 p. + Front. , (IV), 382 p. , (II).