Fair offers work which was key to French prose

Likely to be the rarest and most expensive book available at the PBFA’s 'London Antiquarian Book Fair' is a copy of 'Caractères' by the French philosopher and satirist Jean de La Bruyère.

One of only eight known copies, it was La Bruyère’s sole publication released in 1688. It is recog…

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