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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres de M. Boileau Despréaux

Chez David & Durand, à Paris 1747, in-8 (12x18,5cm), (6) lxxx ; 488pp. et (4) 492pp. (2) et (10) 501pp. (1) et (6) 591pp. et xxij ; 676pp. (2), 5 volumes reliés.

First illustrated edition, decorated with a portrait of the author by Rigaud engraved by Daulé, 39 vignettes including 5 bands, 31 of tailpieces including 18 signed by Eisen (against 25 counted by Cohen), engraved by Boucher, Aveline , Delafosse and Tardieu (mostly unsigned) and 6 beautiful figures to the lectern, unsigned which Cohen says they are Cochin; they were taken from the 1718 edition, but without the embellished frame. Ratings and reviews of St. Mark also appear for the first time in this edition. Beautiful typographical execution.
Binders of the time in full mottled calf. Back with five nerves decorated with boxes and gilded florets, as well as parts of title and volume number morocco red and brown. net gilded on the cuts. All marbled. Mors skillfully restored.
Volume 1: Address to the King, Discourse on Satire Volume 2. Poetic Art, odes, epigrams, various poems, fragments, epigrams Vol. 3: Dialogues, speech, other works, letters, Critical Reflections Vol. 4: Treaty of the Sublime . Volume 5: Boleana, philological essays.
highly sought edition according to Cohen. Note that this edition reproduces the errors of previous editions and the contents of Volume V is not Boileau, but La Bruyère. All notes previous editions have been preserved.
One of illustrated editions of Boileau more popular, because of its size, more enjoyable and manageable than the large folio edition in 1718.

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