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[CAZOTTE (Jacques). Ollivier, poem. Sl, sn, 1763. 2 volumes in one in-8, marbled fawn calf, spine decorated with dotted lines and alternating fleur-de-lis, ermines and scallops, triple gilt fillet on the boards with the same motifs in the corners, red edges (period binding). Lack of leather at the top of the cover. First edition of this heroic play, in fact composed in prose, and which does not figure among the author's most memorable works. (Cioranescu, XVIII, 16365.) Copy of Charles-Paul de Bourgevin de Vialart de Moligny (1713-1794), commissioner of wars, with an armorial bookplate on the first endpapers. Then passed through the library of the poet and publisher (Éditions de Minuit) Georges Hugnet, (ex libris with motto on the first endpaper).
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[CAZOTTE (Jacques). Ollivier, poem. Sl, sn, 1763. 2 volumes in one in-8, marbled fawn calf, spine decorated with dotted lines and alternating fleur-de-lis, ermines and scallops, triple gilt fillet on the boards with the same motifs in the corners, red edges (period binding). Lack of leather at the top of the cover. First edition of this heroic play, in fact composed in prose, and which does not figure among the author's most memorable works. (Cioranescu, XVIII, 16365.) Copy of Charles-Paul de Bourgevin de Vialart de Moligny (1713-1794), commissioner of wars, with an armorial bookplate on the first endpapers. Then passed through the library of the poet and publisher (Éditions de Minuit) Georges Hugnet, (ex libris with motto on the first endpaper).
