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1156 - BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, Nicolas, Works [...]. With historical notes provided by the author himself. New edition, revised, corrected, and expanded with various remarks. Enriched with engravings by Bernard Picart the Roman. Amsterdam: D. Mortier, 1718. 2 vols., in-f°: [4]-xviii-[4]-450, [4]-vii-[1]-370-[20] pp.; 9 half-titles (scattered pinholes and foxing). 19th-century Russian leather, gilded Greek scrolls encircling the covers, spine with double filleted gilded raised bands, gilded roll on the edges, gilded roll on the embossed panels, gilded edges (scuffed, spine worn, one cover slightly sun-faded at the top with a small ink stain). A luxurious edition with notes by Claude Brossette, expanded by Dumonteil, sumptuously illustrated with 9 half-titles: 1 superb allegorical frontispiece including the author’s portrait in a medallion, 1 fold-out portrait of the Princess of Wales, 1 frontispiece and 6 plates for “Le lutrin”; in the text: 1 title vignette featuring a portrait of Erasmus (repeated in Vol. II), 27 tailpieces (several repeated) and 2 initials; for a total of approximately 40 copper engravings (including repetitions) by B. Picart. Only the portrait of the dedicatee is by Pieter Stevens Van Gunst, after Godfrey Kneller. Ref. Cohen 165–166. — Tchemerzine-Scheler I:770–771. — Lewine 73. — STCN.
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BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, Nicolas, Works [...]. With historical notes provided by the author himself. New edition, revised, corrected, and expanded with various remarks. Enriched with engravings by Bernard Picart the Roman. Amsterdam: D. Mortier, 1718. 2 vols., in-f°: [4]-xviii-[4]-450, [4]-vii-[1]-370-[20] pp.; 9 half-titles (scattered pinholes and foxing). 19th-century Russian leather, gilded Greek scrolls encircling the covers, spine with double filleted gilded raised bands, gilded roll on the edges, gilded roll on the embossed panels, gilded edges (scuffed, spine worn, one cover slightly sun-faded at the top with a small ink stain). A luxurious edition with notes by Claude Brossette, expanded by Dumonteil, sumptuously illustrated with 9 half-titles: 1 superb allegorical frontispiece including the author’s portrait in a medallion, 1 fold-out portrait of the Princess of Wales, 1 frontispiece and 6 plates for “Le lutrin”; in the text: 1 title vignette featuring a portrait of Erasmus (repeated in Vol. II), 27 tailpieces (several repeated) and 2 initials; for a total of approximately 40 copper engravings (including repetitions) by B. Picart. Only the portrait of the dedicatee is by Pieter Stevens Van Gunst, after Godfrey Kneller. Ref. Cohen 165–166. — Tchemerzine-Scheler I:770–771. — Lewine 73. — STCN.
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