Boileau-Despréaux | Oeuvres poetiques, Parma, Bodoni, 1814, 2 volumes, extra illustrated

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Oeuvres poetiques. Parma: de l’imprimerie de la Veuve Bodoni, 1814

2 volumes, folio (445 x 315mm.), EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVED PLATES, from other editions works by the author, together with ornamental prints by Stefano Della Bella and Quellinus, late nineteenth-century blue half morocco gilt, some spotting, small inventory label stuck to binding; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return

The additional plates include various portraits of Boileau (around 20 at the start of volume 1, and around 16 in volume 2), two facsimiles of letters at the start of volume 2, over 80 plates for "Le Lutrin" (some in two states, or proof states), cuttings from a seventeenth-century edition of his works inserted at relevant points in the volumes, a series of engraved friezes from Cahier d’arabesques composes par C. L. Desrais en 1789 and Stefano della Bella, Ornament[i] di fregi et fogliami (Paris: N. Langlois) at the end of volume 1, and 26 plates from Quellinus, Aerdighe Festonnen at the end of volume 2.

LITERATURE

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