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BRUSLÉ DE MONTPLEINCHAMP, Jean-Chrisostome] - Le Festin nupt…
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233
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BRUSLÉ DE MONTPLEINCHAMP, Jean-Chrisostome] - Le Festin nupt…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
BRUSLÉ DE MONTPLEINCHAMP, Jean-Chrisostome] - Le Festin nuptial dressé dans l'Arabie heureuse, au mariage d'Esope, de Phèdre et de Pilpai avec trois Fées, divisé en trois tables. By M. de Palaidor. A Pirou, en Basse-Normandie, chez Florent A-Fable(Bruxelles, Liener), 1700. In-12, (8) ff. 384 pp. pl. in red morocco (c. 1780), triple gilt thread on boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (DERÔME le jeune ?).
JONES I. GRAESSE I, 558. First edition of this collection of apologues composed in verse after Aesop, La Fontaine, Furetière, Desmay, Boursault, Mme de Villedieu, Pilpai, etc. The new century having declared itself in favour of fables and tales, I have married three fairies with the main fabulists. In a ball, "the Muses unveil the truth in cadences to mark the character of fables: hiding truths under fictions". We deplore ''the injustice of the time which despises poetry and poets'' while congratulating the rare patrons who are friends of fine minds. In the last pages, masked characters are key.
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