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CORNEILLE (Pierre). Miscellaneous works. Paris, Gissey et Bo…
See original version (French)
514
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CORNEILLE (Pierre). Miscellaneous works. Paris, Gissey et Bo…
See original version (French)
Estimate €50 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
CORNEILLE (Pierre). Miscellaneous works. Paris, Gissey et Bordelet, 1738.
In-12 of xxxiv-461-[8] pp. brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (contemporary binding). A fine copy with wide margins, well bound.
Abbé François Granet, the editor of this collection, has prefaced it with a preface in which he stresses the interest of Corneille's slightest fragments. He has brought together the translations that the great tragic poet had made of several Latin poems by P. de la Rue and Santeul, verses that he had presented to the King on several occasions, and so on. For the productions of Corneille's youth, he was more reserved.
"In cutting out the pieces of licentious gallantry," he says, "I have merely followed the example of M. Corneille, who purged his early comedies of anything that might remind one of the idea." The editor has included in his book 3 madrigals taken from Julie's Guirlande; he has reprinted several pieces which appeared in the original editions of the plays, but which had since been left out; finally, he has reproduced some of the verses addressed by Corneille to his amateur friends and put by them at the head of their works. Following Fontenelle's example, Granet has endeavoured to find the 2 books of Stace translated by Corneille, but he has not been more successful than his predecessor. The preface is followed by the Défense du grand Corneille, by the Jesuit Father Tournemire. There are 96 plays in this collection, including various Latin epigrams translated by Corneille. The volume must contain a box which is not the same in all copies. In some, it contains only the sonnet on the death of Louis XIII (which is the case of this copy), in others it contains another draft of the same piece, followed by the Placet au Roy, sur le retard de sa pension. (Picot, Bibliogr. Cornélinne, n°174.) Bookplate De l'Hôpital de Grainville. Ex-libris Villa Rohellou.
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