François-Auguste PARSEVAL GRANDMAISONS
Les Amours épiques, poëme en six chants
imprimerie de Dentu|à Paris 1806|13 x 20 cm|relié
Second edition with some parts in first edition, the first edition of 1804 had 2000 fewer verses. A title vignette.
Contemporary full camel blonde calf binding, signed R.P. Thouvenin. Spine with five raised bands decorated with stippling, fleurons and gilt fillets, as well as a blue morocco title-label. Gilt pointillé stamps, roulette and cold fillet framing the boards. Gilt dentelle framing the marbled paper pastedowns. All edges marbled. Head damaged, joints slightly rubbed. A large dampstain in the lower margin affecting the first leaves.
A collection composed of imitations of the great epic poets, from Antiquity or the Renaissance, consisting of a succession of tableaux. The author thus supposes that in the Elysian Fields, the great epic poets (Homer, Milton, Ariosto...) have gathered to sing and versify about the famous loves of Andromache and Hector, Renaud and Armida, Adam and Eve... This poetic vein, into which numerous poets of the Empire threw themselves, Millevoye or Baour Lormian, in their desire to resurrect epic poetry, left the impression of a serious crisis in French poetry.
Contemporary full camel blonde calf binding, signed R.P. Thouvenin. Spine with five raised bands decorated with stippling, fleurons and gilt fillets, as well as a blue morocco title-label. Gilt pointillé stamps, roulette and cold fillet framing the boards. Gilt dentelle framing the marbled paper pastedowns. All edges marbled. Head damaged, joints slightly rubbed. A large dampstain in the lower margin affecting the first leaves.
A collection composed of imitations of the great epic poets, from Antiquity or the Renaissance, consisting of a succession of tableaux. The author thus supposes that in the Elysian Fields, the great epic poets (Homer, Milton, Ariosto...) have gathered to sing and versify about the famous loves of Andromache and Hector, Renaud and Armida, Adam and Eve... This poetic vein, into which numerous poets of the Empire threw themselves, Millevoye or Baour Lormian, in their desire to resurrect epic poetry, left the impression of a serious crisis in French poetry.
€250