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BOILEAU-DESPREAUX (Nicolas)
Miscellaneous works by Sieur D***, together with the treatise on the Sublime or the Marvellous in the discourse translated from the Greek by Longinus.
Paris, Denys Thierry, 1674.
1 vol. in-4°. Full contemporary binding in havana sheepskin. A small tear in the upper joint.
Separate frontispiece engraved in intaglio by P Landry and 1 separate plate drawn and engraved by François Chauveau for *Le Lutrin*, (2) ff., 142 pp., (4) ff., pp. [143] to 178, (1) f., (4) ff., 102 pp., (5) ff.
First collected edition of Boileau’s works, partly in the original. It comprises the first nine satires, the Discourse to the King, the Discourse on Satire, and the first four epistles in verse.
It also includes the original edition of the first four cantos of *Le Lutrin* and the translation of the *Treatise on the Sublime* with a new preface.
A fine copy.
See original version (French)
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