[PRÉVOST (Abbé Antoine François)]. • Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Distinction Who Has Withdrawn from the World. •• The Story of Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut. Paris, published by the Company, 1731. 2 works in 7 tomes and 3 volumes in-16, calfskin, decorated ribbed spine (contemporary binding). • Edition published one year after the original (for the Memoirs). •• First edition of the Story of Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut (which forms Volume VII). One engraved frontispiece; vignettes on the title pages and endpapers. Minor losses to the caps of the second volume; a few worn corners. Tchemerzine, IX, 219–220.