Jean DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN
Les delices de l'esprit : dialogues dediez aux beaux esprits du monde
Chez Florentin Lambert|à Paris 1661|24 x 36 cm|relié
First edition of 1658, with a relay title at Lambert's address and dated 1661. Apart from the title page, the only notable difference is the removal of the epistle to Cardinal Mazarin who died on 9 March 1661. The illustration was created by François Chauveau: 4 ornamented frontispiece titles, 15 plates whose subjects are placed at the center of flowered letters and figures, and 5 plates decorated only with large figures. The text is enhanced with 135 head- and tailpieces and initial letters engraved on wood in the style of the frontispieces and plate figures. A slip indicating the transfer of privilege dated 12 September 1659 has been pasted at the bottom of the privilege extract. On the la
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