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BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX, Nicolas (1636-1711)
[Works. 1713]
Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau Despreaux. Nouvelle edition, reveuë & augmentée. Premiere partie. (Seconde partie.)
A Paris (Place), chez Esprit Billiot,, 1713.
2 vols ; 25.2 cm. (4º)
I: [30], 368 p., engr. frontis. port., [2] pl.
II: [2], 369--772, [2] p.

This edition is often attributed to the editorship of J.B.H. du Trousset de Valincour and Eusèbe Renaudot; cf. E. Magne, Bibliographie générale des oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, no. 559. Pages [694]--752: 'Remarques Sur Longin' by Dacier and by Boivin.

Copy Notes Bought from Thomas Boone for 12s. on 8 July 1807. (Spiers Box). First front free-endpaper inscribed in pencil 2 toms :12s: with bookseller's codes. Inscribed in ink on title-page of vol. I Rob. Kock. The frontispiece portrait of Boileau is pasted onto the second front free-endpaper, through which can be read a further ownership inscription in ink Jno. Beverley. 1774/ 2 Toms/ -6-.

Binding C18th Cambridge-style panelled sprinkled calf, gilt roll-tooled borders, later gilt-tooled spines with red & olive leather spine-labels.

Reference Number 386

Additional Names Thomas Boone; Kock, Robert; Renaudot, Eusèbe (1646--1720 ); Valincour, Jean-Baptiste-Henri Du Trousset de (1653--1730 ); Longinus, Dionysius Cassius (ca.$213--273) - De Sublimitate; Beverley, John


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