Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX, LONGIN [PSEUDO-LONGIN]
Traité du Sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, traduit du grec de Longin par M. D***.
Chez la Veuve de Claude Thiboust et Pierre Esclassan|1694|9 x 16 cm|relié
First bilingual edition, decorated with a frontispiece by Ertinger. Title page in red and black. Bilingual edition with the translation on facing pages.
Contemporary full blonde marbled calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 compartmentalized fleurons. Binding with monogram stamped on covers, a B within a D. Upper joint cracked at foot. One lack at head. Rubbing. One corner very bumped.
Blue stamp on title page and library label: Domus Acheolana Societatis Jesus.
Treatise on the rhetoric of elevated discourse, the work enjoyed great success in Boileau's translation where it took its place in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
Contemporary full blonde marbled calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 compartmentalized fleurons. Binding with monogram stamped on covers, a B within a D. Upper joint cracked at foot. One lack at head. Rubbing. One corner very bumped.
Blue stamp on title page and library label: Domus Acheolana Societatis Jesus.
Treatise on the rhetoric of elevated discourse, the work enjoyed great success in Boileau's translation where it took its place in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
€400