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CHOISY, François-Timoléon, Abbé de] - La Nouvelle Astrée, dé…
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659
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CHOISY, François-Timoléon, Abbé de] - La Nouvelle Astrée, dé…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200
Voluntary lot
Description
CHOISY, François-Timoléon, Abbé de] - La Nouvelle Astrée, dédiée à son Altesse Royale Madame. Paris, Nicolas Pepie, 1713. In-12, (8) ff, 210 pp, red half-marble with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt tr.
GAY III, 380. JONES 20. First ed. in 1712. The author explains in the warning that he wrote this work for a lady who was never able to finish the first volume of the Astrée. He says: ''I proposed to her to remove all the defects which she had felt by a natural taste, to make of it a small work of country gallantry; to soften certain places a little free, which the scrupulous modesty of our century did not sçauroit suffer in the Books; to purge it of Theology, Politics, Medicine and Poetry; to remove all the useless characters, never to lose sight of Astrée and Céladon, and thereby to avoid the pitfall of all long novels, where the Hero and Heroine only rarely appear on the stage.'' Sign. ''Joyeuse'' on the title.
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