BOILEAU (Nicolas)
Miscellaneous works. Avec le Traité du sublime, ou du merveilleux dans le discours. Paris, Veuve Claude Barbin, 1701. 2 volumes in-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spines, interior lace, gilt edges (Brany).
Last edition published during the author's lifetime, with 2 frontispieces and 8 (of 9) copper-engraved figures by Landry, Vallet, Thomassin and Noblin (Magne, Boileau, no. 289).
A very well-bound copy.
From the libraries of Baron Horace de Landau and Vicomte de Cossette.
The figure preceding the Discourse to the King in Volume I is missing. Slight scuffing to one corner.
