INVENTORY #148939
Oeuvres en Vers de Mr. Boleau Despreaux, Avec Des Eclaircissemens Historiques. Donnez par lui-même. Vols. I-IV
BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas
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One would not expect the fifteenth child of a Paris Parliamentary clerk to become one of France's leading men of letters but Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 1711), often known simply as Boileau, did much to reform the French poetry of his time. He holds a well-defined place in French literature, being one of the first who applied rules to versification.
Publication Info
- Publisher: C. & R. Westein
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1717
- Place Published: Amsterdam
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
4 vols.: [50], 320, [2]; [12], 440, [4]; 296, [20]; 308, [16] p. 17 cm. Engraved frontispiece in vol. I, 6 engraved plates in vol. II. 3 title pages with vignettes (vol. 2 has no title). Black and red print on titles.Scattered decorations. Full leather with gilt trim on spines and edges. Marbled endpapers. Spine ends chipped, corners bumped. Boards scuffed. All vols. have dampstains to first and last pages. Vol. II has dampstains and holes in front endpapers, no title page, tear in top of first leaf, rear free endpaper missing and chips to rear pastedown, one signature is jutting out, pages 177-82 have chipped top corners. Vol. III has hole in margin of p. 11. Vol. IV has tears in pp. 17 and 181. Some chips and tears may be paper faults. French text.