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FURETIÈRE (Antoine).
The Bourgeois Novel, a comic work.
Paris: published by Guillaume de Luyne, 1666.
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The Bourgeois Novel, a comic work.
Paris: published by Guillaume de Luyne, 1666.
8vo, (6) leaves, 700 pp., [Marked ã6; A-2T8; UU4], frontispiece title engraved in black on copper. 19th-century fawn morocco, spine with raised bands decorated with a gold dotted border, compartments decorated with small ironwork and edged with a double fillet and dotted lines, all gilded, triple gilded fillet framing the covers, double gilded fillet on the headbands and footbands, interior lace, edges gilded on marbled paper [Thibaron-Joly] (scratches on the upper cover, small tear in the margin on p. 529).
René Rouzaud (1905–1976), a renowned lyricist and composer, best known for *La Goualante du pauvre Jean*, performed by Edith Piaf (gilded bookplate).
Tchemerzine, III, 395 (“the page numbers jump from 640 to 661 without any gaps”).
A rare first edition. Complete with the unusual engraved frontispiece, which is often missing. Part realistic plot-driven novel, part comic and social panorama of Parisian merchant and urban life, this work offers a critique of the literature of the Précieux and the novelistic genre… A fine copy in an attractive binding by Thibaron-Joly.