Edition limited to 1560 numbered copies. P.L. Couchoud provides a discussion of Pascal's Discours de la Condition de L'Homme followed by a facsimile of the original manuscript. Couchoud examines the origins of the manuscript, its date, its dispersement, and its reassembly. Each leaf of the facsimile is opposite a transcription of the text. Illustrated in black-and-white. Corners of cover rubbed.