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BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX NICOLAS (1636-1711)
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BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX NICOLAS (1636-1711)
The Lectern. Heroic-comic poem.
Edition according to the original text with vignettes by Ernest and Frédéric HILLEMACHER (Lyon, N. Scheuring, 1862). In-4| bound in red morocco, gilt filleted covers and spandrel ornaments, double gilt fillet around edges, spine ribbed
, gilt inside
spine
, gilt edges (Capé).
Very nice edition coming out of Louis Perrin's presses in Lyon, with a print run of 300 copies. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 6 vignettes engraved in etching by Frédéric Hillemacher
after drawings by Ernest Hillemacher (1818-1887).
Unique copy, one of the 25 copies on paper from Holland with the vignettes before the letter, here doubled by an edition on China, with eight original drawings by Ernest Hillemacher: the frontispiece (black and red pencil sketch, tiled), the 6 vignettes (signed and dated, in graphite), and a portrait of Boileau (black pencil, blurred
and enhanced with white, signed E.H.).
A very beautiful letter from Boileau with a poem was bound at the head.
L
.A.S. "Despreaux", Paris March 4, 1703), to his
friend Claude BROSSETTE| 2 pages in-4
. His brother "le Chanoine de la Ste Chappelle" [Jacques Boileau] sent to Brossette "the request presented by the Chantre Barrin about the Lectern put on his bench" [allusion to the Lectern]. Boileau apologizes for his delay in answering his friend's letters: "It seems to me however that it is your fault since it is your too great facility to forgive me my negligences that makes me negligent. [...] Once again, don't limit yourself to excuses, but accompany them with hams and cheeses that will make you apologize when you are wrong". To repair his wrong, he inserts in his letter a tenth made on a verse of the Anthology (quoted in Greek) on Homer: "When
the last time on the sacred ValleyThe
troop of the nine Sisters
by the order of ApolloLut
the Iliad and t
The Lectern. Heroic-comic poem.
Edition according to the original text with vignettes by Ernest and Frédéric HILLEMACHER (Lyon, N. Scheuring, 1862). In-4| bound in red morocco, gilt filleted covers and spandrel ornaments, double gilt fillet around edges, spine ribbed
, gilt inside
spine
, gilt edges (Capé).
Very nice edition coming out of Louis Perrin's presses in Lyon, with a print run of 300 copies. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 6 vignettes engraved in etching by Frédéric Hillemacher
after drawings by Ernest Hillemacher (1818-1887).
Unique copy, one of the 25 copies on paper from Holland with the vignettes before the letter, here doubled by an edition on China, with eight original drawings by Ernest Hillemacher: the frontispiece (black and red pencil sketch, tiled), the 6 vignettes (signed and dated, in graphite), and a portrait of Boileau (black pencil, blurred
and enhanced with white, signed E.H.).
A very beautiful letter from Boileau with a poem was bound at the head.
L
.A.S. "Despreaux", Paris March 4, 1703), to his
friend Claude BROSSETTE| 2 pages in-4
. His brother "le Chanoine de la Ste Chappelle" [Jacques Boileau] sent to Brossette "the request presented by the Chantre Barrin about the Lectern put on his bench" [allusion to the Lectern]. Boileau apologizes for his delay in answering his friend's letters: "It seems to me however that it is your fault since it is your too great facility to forgive me my negligences that makes me negligent. [...] Once again, don't limit yourself to excuses, but accompany them with hams and cheeses that will make you apologize when you are wrong". To repair his wrong, he inserts in his letter a tenth made on a verse of the Anthology (quoted in Greek) on Homer: "When
the last time on the sacred ValleyThe
troop of the nine Sisters
by the order of ApolloLut
the Iliad and t