[FINE BINDINGS] PERSIAN LETTERS. MONTESQUIEU. [3 VOLUMES]

London: Gibbings and Co. Ltd, 1899. Three 12mo, volumes; half calf over marbled boards; lxii, 130 pages; xi, 207 pages; xi, 168 pages, including Index; with attractive plates etched by Ed. De Beaumont and Engraved by E. Boivin; the spines with lovely floral decorations in gilt; top edges gilt; there is a previous owner name label at the top of the pastedown in each volume.~~Montesquieu penned Persian Letters in 1721, and only later wrote that he "discover[ed] in them, unexpectedely, a sort of novel." [see wiki].~~An attractive set in bindings with decorations in gilt.