BOILEAU, Nicolas.

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BOILEAU, Nicolas.
Various works of sieur D*** with the treatise of the sublime or the marvellous in speech, translated from the Greek of Longin. New edition, revised & enlarged. Paris, Denys Thierry, 1685. In-12 (163 x 93 mm) of an engraved frontispiece by Pierre Landry, 5 ff.n.ch., 298 pp., 8 ff.n.ch. de table; 9 ff.n.ch., pp. [17]- 189 pp.., 4 ff.n.ch.; red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing, spine ribbed, boxes decorated with small irons, dolphin roulette tail, red morocco lining set with a roulette wheel, gilt edges (binding attributed to Luc-Antoine Boyet). Fourth collective original edition. It contains, in addition to the speech to the king, nine satires, the discourse on satire, 9 epistles (including those to Lamoignon and Racine), poetic art, the 6 songs on the lectern, and the treatise on the sublime. It is decorated with four full-page engravings, two of which were engraved by Landry and the other two by Vallet after Paillet. The second privilege sheet is missing, the first one is present at the beginning of the book. Very nice copy set in red, probably bound for the Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV, decorated with the famous dauphin roulette wheel. It is attributed to the bookbinder Luc-Antoine Boyet. For an almost identical binding see the Barthou sale, lot 69. See Tchemerzine-Scheler, I, 748 (different snack); Magne, I, 263.
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