Principes de la littérature. New edition.
Paris, chez Desaint & Saillant, 1764. 5 volumes in-12 (163 x 95 mm) of XXIV, 366 pp., 1 f.n.ch. for volume I ; XIV, 404 pp., 2 ff.n.ch.
for volume II ; 4 f.n.ch. (of which the first blank), 463 pp. for volume III; 4 f.n.ch. (of which the first blank), 429 pp. for volume
IV ; 3 ff.n.ch., 354 pp., 3 ff.n.ch. (errata and privilege) for volume V.
Spotted calf, spine ribbed and decorated, marbled edges (contemporary binding).
See Brunet, I, 701 (ed. 1774).
The Principles of Literature are a collection of several earlier writings by the Abbé Batteux. Before adopting this title in 1764, its author had published separately a treatise Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe in 1746, a Cours de Belles-Lettres, between 1747 and 1748, and the treatise on the Construction oratoire in 1763.
The Cours de Belles-Lettres was renamed in 1753 into Cours de Belles-Lettres ou principes de la littérature (Desaint et Saillant, et Durand, in 4 vols.), before appearing in 1764 under the new title of Principes de la littérature.
A fine copy, with minor wear to volumes IV-V. Trace of exlibris scratched on the back covers.
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