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[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
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219
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[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
See original version (French)
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€60 - €80
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Description
[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
BOURSAULT:
New Letters from Monsieur Boursault, accompanied by fables, tales, epigrams, observations, witticisms and other features as enjoyable as they are useful... including thirteen love letters from a lady to a gentleman. 4th edition. Volume I (-II) and *Lettres de Babet*, by the late Monsieur Boursault. Volume III.
Lyon. Published by Louis Bruyset, 1709 and 1712
3 volumes in 12°. Full contemporary binding in fawn sheepskin. Ribbed spine, decorated with gilt metalwork and fleurons. Minor signs of wear, with some loss to the head and foot caps. Minor scuffs.
Volume I: 12 unnumbered pages, 378 pages. Early marginal annotations, including typographical corrections or critical remarks.
Volume II: 4 unnumbered pages, 468 pages (complete, despite pagination errors). Handwritten marginal annotations.
Volume III – Letters of Babet: 22 unnumbered pages (Epistle and Preface), 351 pages and 8 unnumbered pages for the Table of Contents.
Partly original edition.
These *Lettres nouvelles* are a collection of contemporary chronicles, news of the city and the court, fables, tales and satires. The 13 letters from a lady to a gentleman form a short narrative. The third volume consists of the *Lettres de Babet*.
Boursault is better known and remembered as a playwright, although posterity has often remembered him only for his role as censor of Molière’s *L’école des femmes* and his ill-fated involvement in the theatrical quarrels of the 17th century. The author, however, worked in many literary fields, notably the short story and the novel, writing in a free and light-hearted style.
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