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LA BRUYÈRE (Jean).
The Characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek. With the characters or customs of this century.
Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1696.
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The Characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek. With the characters or customs of this century.
Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1696.
Fort n-12, (16) leaves, 662–XLIV pp., (3) leaves. 19th-century red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with a gold dotted pattern, title, place and date in gold, panels decorated with small ironwork and edged with a double gold fillet and dotted pattern, triple gold fillet framing the covers, double gold fillet on the head and foot caps, interior lace, edges gilt on marbled paper [Cuzin; Maillard dor.] (discreet stains on the covers, very slight rubbing on the headband and corners).
Robert Hoe (1839–1909; gilt bookplate on red paper; auction of 22 April 1912, lot no. 1803).
Tchemerzine III, 810.
The final first edition, containing the complete and definitive text comprising 1,120 characters and the Academy’s Address. This is the edition authorised by La Bruyère with his final revisions; it was published three weeks before his death. A copy enhanced with a portrait of the author on the frontispiece, engraved on copper by Pierre Savart in 1768 after a work by St. Jean. It contains no endpapers. A very fine copy, elegantly produced by Cuzin.