[Leo Tolstoy]. Léon Tolstoï. War and Peace. A Historical Novel. New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First U. S. edition, export issue for circulation in Europe, with different ads. Translated from the French. Six octavo volumes, comprised of: Before Tilsit, 1805-1807; The Invasion,1807-1812; and Bordino, The French at Moscow -Epilogue-, 1812-1820. [ii], 322, [6, advertisements]; [ii], 357, [1, blank]; [ii], 321, [1, blank]; [ii], 270; [ii, title leaf], ii [translator's postscript], 290, [6, advertisements]; [ii] 391, [1, blank] pages. Publisher's uniform decorated brown cloth, boards elaborately tooled and ruled in black, front boards lettered in gilt with gilt-stamped Napoleonic and Russian Imperial crests, spines lettered in gilt; brown-coated endpapers, flyleaves. Spines gently leaning; spine ends worn, particularly on middle and later volumes, second volume of The Invasion lacking some cloth at crown; corners bumped. Text-blocks faintly browning with occasional light foxing to page edges; sporadic mild over-opening. Flyleaves and endpapers lightly foxed; large armorial bookplate to each volume. A very good, unsophisticated set. A literary pillar.