Encyclopédie Méthodique. Grammaire et Littérature, dédiée et présentée a monsieur Le Camus de Néville, Maître des Requêtes, Directeur Général de la Librairie. I-III. [Complete].

Paris, Panckoucke, 1783-1788. In three volumes. 4to (25.5 x 20.0 cm). Three titles to the Encyclopédie, three titles with wood-engraved vignette, to the Grammaire volumes; 2314 pp. [viii, 790; 768; 748]. Uniform contemporary mottled half calf (corners vellum) over marbled boards. Spines with five raised, gilt-bordered bands; compartments with gilt snowflake vignettes and red and black morocco labels with double-gilt borders and title. Edges speckled red. = A rare part of the Ultimate Encyclopaedia and the largest of all great Encyclopaedias and the most important work published during the French Enlightement. This section - complete in itself - written by the French writer and grammarian Nicolás Beauzée Dumarsais (1717-1789) and the historian and playwright Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799). They dedicated this work to François Michel Claude Benoît Le Camus de Néville(1750-1813), who was director of the Librairie from 1776 to 1784 "he protected the publisher Charles-Joseph Panckoucke and promoted the publication of the Encyclopédie méthodique" (French Wikipedia). Some light wear to the boards, otherwise, a very good, clean and complete set. Schmitt, S. (2018) Inventaire des livraisons, des auteurs et du contenu de l’Encyclopédie méthodique (1782-1832).