N.p. [Paris] : 1751. 12mo, [4], 266 pp, cont. mottled calf, fully gilt spine, morocco label, marbled e-p’s, early signature of “J. Leslie Foster” in brown ink at head of title-page. A good copy.
A note to this edition in the Bibliotheque nationale catalogue online says “Par Ch. Pinot, sieur Duclos, d’apres Barbier. - Differe par le titre, la pagination ou l’adresse de plusieurs autres editions parues la meme annee, dont une autre sans adresse, une a l’adresse (fausse) d’Amsterdam et une a l’adresse de P. Prault avec privilege. - Imprime en France, probablement a Paris, d’apres le materiel et les usages typographiques ainsi que le papier (Bugey)”. Manuscripts giving permission in 1751 for printing this title exist for both the booksellers Prault and Brunet but it has not yet been determined to which of the several editions dated 1751 they refer.
Reference: Barbier. I col.723 Brunet II col. 860 (“Amsterdam” ed. only)
Heltzel : Courtesy Books in Newberry Library 485 (1784 ed. only)

Paris : Chez Urbain Coustelier. 1727. First Edition
2 vols, cr. 8vo, eng. frontis., title in red and black, A-Y8, Z2 (Y8 blank) + title in red and black, A-S8, T3, (lacking final blank), contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt with morocco labels, edges sprinkled red, signature “Bateman” on both titles, a good sound copy
The author was for a time ‘president du conseil de commerce’ at Dunkerque, but in 1714 retired to Paris where he became a member of the infamous Societe du Temple, a dining club much given to carousing and debauchery. It was after such a dinner that, one dark night in Montmartre, he was shot dead by a footpad intent on stealing his money. Some of his work was considered good enough to be attributed to La Fontaine, but as is pointed out by Gay / Lemmonyer “Vergier est plus immoral, plus obscene”, although “Son libertinage n’est pas sans grace”. He was called “the French Anacreon” by Rousseau on account of his drinking songs, none of which were thought to have survived until recently when a manuscript notebook was discovered. (See Justin Croft Catalogue of French Books and Manuscripts January 2012 item 79)
Reference: COPAC locates but 3 copies, BL, Oxford and Manchester
NOT IN Cioranescu who notices only the Rouen 1743 edition

Rouen : Chez Besoigne 1743. Small 8vo, 3 vols in 2, eng. frontis., [vi], 418, [4]pp, + eng. frontis., t-p., 324, [4]pp, + eng.frontis., t-p., 173, [3], 36 pp, title-pages in red and black, contemporary sprinkled calf, 2-line fillet borders in gilt, fully gilt spines lacking title-labels, edges sprinkled red, engraved armorial book label “White - Wellingwells” probably Sir Thomas Woollaston White of Wellingwells. A good sound copy.
The author was for a time ‘president du conseil de commerce’ at Dunkerque, but in 1714 retired to Paris where he became a member of the infamous Societe du Temple, a dining club much given to carousing and debauchery. It was after such a dinner that, one dark night in Montmartre, he was shot dead by a footpad intent on stealing his money. Some of his work was considered good enough to be attributed to La Fontaine,. but as is pointed out by Gay / Lemmonyer “Vergier est plus immoral, plus obscene”, although “Son libertinage n’est pas sans grace”. He was called “the French Anacreon” by Rousseau on account of his drinking songs, none of which were thought to have survived until recently when a manuscript notebook was discovered. (See Justin Croft Catalogue of French Books and Manuscripts January 2012 item 79)
Reference: Cioranescu 17. siecle 65932
COPAC B.L., Oxford, and Manchester only.

Harlem: 1766. “Fifth Edition”
Small 8vo, eng. frontis., [-]2, A-V8, [ii], 318pp, cont. mottled calf, fully gilt spine, morocco label, edges stained red, some wear to joints but still firm. On the front fly leaf is a 17-line ms. note in ink discussing Beccaria’s authorship and “Dr. Parr’s” doubt as to that ascription being correct.
Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio is widely regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment and the father of classical criminology. He laid out his ideas about legal reform including how and why to create effective punishments. He advocated that punishments should fit the crime and be proportional to the harm done. His great work, Dei Delitti delle Pene, first published anonymously in 1764, was so successful that pirated editions appeared almost immediately, and soon after counterfeit editions of the pirated. The present copy appears to be identical with OCLC: 66257658 located in four copies, 3 in the Netherlands and one in Germany, but there are doubtless others in this complicated printing history.

[London: Printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston] 1648 (i.e. 1649). First Edition, second issue
Small 8vo, A4, (A3 mis-signed A4), B-S8, lacking last blank, lacking the folding frontispiece, 4-page Als from Edward Almack to Geo. C. Williamson tipped in at end and on a front fly a long note by Williamson recording that this copy was foundin an old house in Guildford, black morocco, gilt fillet borders, centre panel in gilt and blind with floral cornerpieces, spine with raised bands, gilt flowers in compartments, by Riviere signed on front turn-in, neatly rehinged, edges stained black, probably by the original binder.
An oft-reprinted work, of which Madan lists 51 issues and editions appearing in 1648 and 1649, many of them by printers and publishers being hounded by the authorities and frequently arrested. The bibliography of the early issues is complicated; Edward Almack was the first to investigate them and he gave the present issue (without the names in the imprint) priority. He also claimed that the folding frontispiece was not issued with this edition, and the Pforzheimer Catalogue follows him in this - “... the engraved frontispiece by William Marshall which was intended for several of the later editions”. Madan finds otherwise; identifying this copy as first edition, second issue (it has the scambled pagination in sig. G) and stating that the engraved portrait should be present, although I note that, of the 11 copies he lists as known to him, no less than 4 are described as without the portrait. I have to admit however, that ideally, rare though all early issues undoubtedly are, this one should perhaps have the portrait to be absolutely complete.
Reference: Wing E 268 Madan: New Bibliog. Eikon Basilike. 1b ESTC R18840
Pforzheimer 171