BOILEAU (Nicolas). Oeuvres de Boileau Despréaux. Avec des éclaircissemens historiques donnés par lui-même, & rédigés par M. Brossette ; augmentées de plusieurs pièces, tant de l'auteur, qu'ayant rapport à ses ouvrages ; avec des remarques & des dissertations critiques. By M. de Saint-Marc. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de plusieurs remarques & de pièces relatives aux ouvrages de l'auteur. Enriched with figures engraved after the designs of the famous Picart le Romain. A Paris, chez les Libraires associés, 1772. 5 volumes in-8, period tortoiseshell calf, 5-ribbed spine, red and fawn titles and giblets, ornate caissons, triple gilt fillet edging the covers with angular fleurons, gilt fillet at the edges, gilt roulette at the chasses, gilt edges (defects including rubbing at the spines, dull corners and uncovered headpieces; foxing).
Edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 6 plates illustrating Le Lutrin engraved by Vinkeles after B. Picart, 2 additional plates at the head of Epitres and Art poétique drawn and engraved by Van der Meer, and engraved vignettes to the titles, by Van der Meer and F. de Bakker.
(Brunet I, 1060).
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