Charles Joseph de MAYER
Aventures et Plaisante éducation du Courtois Chevalier Charles-le-Bon, Sire d'Armagnac , contenant profitables leçons à jeunes chevaliers et à des Dames de haut parage
S. n.|à Amsterdam • et se trouve à Paris 1785|8.50 x 15 cm|relié
First edition. Illustrated with three frontispieces by Marillier finely engraved by Le Beau. 4 musical airs notated on several plates.
Half vellum binding from the early 19th century with small corners. Smooth spine. Black title and volume labels framed with thick gilt fillets.
Medieval novel set during the reigns of Louis XI and Charles VI inspired by tales and fabliaux of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The author explains his choice of vocabulary and archaic style in a long preface on the novel and observations on medieval tales and fabliaux and the troubadours of Provence, followed by a discourse on the novel.
Charles Joseph Mayer (1751-1825), French writer and editor of Cabinet des fées, whose critical role was important for the rediscovery of ancient literatures. Les Aventures is perhaps the first attempt at a pastiche of a medieval novel resonating with accents of a new modernity.
Half vellum binding from the early 19th century with small corners. Smooth spine. Black title and volume labels framed with thick gilt fillets.
Medieval novel set during the reigns of Louis XI and Charles VI inspired by tales and fabliaux of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The author explains his choice of vocabulary and archaic style in a long preface on the novel and observations on medieval tales and fabliaux and the troubadours of Provence, followed by a discourse on the novel.
Charles Joseph Mayer (1751-1825), French writer and editor of Cabinet des fées, whose critical role was important for the rediscovery of ancient literatures. Les Aventures is perhaps the first attempt at a pastiche of a medieval novel resonating with accents of a new modernity.
€350