Lerasle (ed.), a.o. — Encyclopédie Méthodique. Jurisprudence. I-X. [Complete, and nearly completely in original boards].

Paris, Panckoucke, 1782-1792. Ten volumes in ten. 4to (27.2 x 21.2 cm). Ten titles to the Encyclopédie, ten titles with wood-engraved vignette, to the Jurisprudence volumes; 7451 pp. [I: viii, 796; II: 800; III: 808; IV: 831; V: 851; VI: 820; VII: 742; VIII: 336; IX: 616; X: 843]; one large, folding table. Uniform original grey boards with printed paper label on the spines [except Volume 10(1), in later half buckram]. = A rare, and large, 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 - mostly edited by an lawyer named Lerasle, but with the help of many juridical specialists. The last two volumes were written by the journalist and statistician Jacques Peuchet (1758-1830), and titled Police et municipalité. The bindings are not entirely uniform. Uncut. An original Volume X(I) is not present; a bound volume, containing the whole tenth volume, is added. Labels nearly all mostly perished; damp-staining to Volume 8, and, partly, to Volume 9(II); otherwise, an excellent, clean, and nearly unmarked set. Schmitt, S. (2018) Inventaire des livraisons, des auteurs et du contenu de l’Encyclopédie méthodique (1782-1832).