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(William Coombe). GANDAIS (A.): Le Don Quichotte romantique, ou voyage du Docteur Syntaxe, à la recherche du pittoresque et du romantique: poème en XX chants, traduit librement de l'anglais, et orné de 26 gravures. By M. Gandais. Paris, L'Auteur et Pélicier, 1821. One volume. 14 by 22 cm. title frontispiece-VIII-146 pp. + 25 plates h.t. Complete. Romantic half calf, spine ornate, upper cover restored. Scattered foxing, small paper loss at corner tip of 1st leaf (original defect) without affecting the text. First edition in French. Jules Marsan, La bataille romantique, 1813 - 1857, pp. 36-37. This free translation of William Coombe's work is a satire of the Romantics and their movement: "Imagination is the great culprit, the inspirer of all the follies of the age: it is imagination that must be pursued. In the English poem, Syntaxe is only a painter; here, he has become a poet, and from then on, some chapter titles take on the air of direct allusions: the desert, the ruins, the lake, or even the cemetery, for nothing is more poetic than tombs." (Marsan). This edition is illustrated with 25 burlesque lithographs by Engelmann and Malajean.

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(William Coombe). GANDAIS (A.): Le Don Quichotte romantique, ou voyage du Docteur Syntaxe, à la recherche du pittoresque et du romantique: poème en XX chants, traduit librement de l'anglais, et orné de 26 gravures. By M. Gandais. Paris, L'Auteur et Pélicier, 1821. One volume. 14 by 22 cm. title frontispiece-VIII-146 pp. + 25 plates h.t. Complete. Romantic half calf, spine ornate, upper cover restored. Scattered foxing, small paper loss at corner tip of 1st leaf (original defect) without affecting the text. First edition in French. Jules Marsan, La bataille romantique, 1813 - 1857, pp. 36-37. This free translation of William Coombe's work is a satire of the Romantics and their movement: "Imagination is the great culprit, the inspirer of all the follies of the age: it is imagination that must be pursued. In the English poem, Syntaxe is only a painter; here, he has become a poet, and from then on, some chapter titles take on the air of direct allusions: the desert, the ruins, the lake, or even the cemetery, for nothing is more poetic than tombs." (Marsan). This edition is illustrated with 25 burlesque lithographs by Engelmann and Malajean.

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