Complete Works

First collected edition. One portrait frontispiece and 2 engravings by Marillier in the second volume (one of these engravings is often missing). Half-titles and titles in red and black.
Full blonde sheep binding, slightly later. Smooth spine decorated with compartments and rolls. Red morocco title label, and black morocco volume label with rolls. Some corners slightly bumped. A thin tear at head of volume I. Handsome copy.
The posthumous edition, two years after the author's death, is distributed as follows: Volumes I and II: Theatre and the Turkish Letters; Volumes III, IV, and V: Historical Essays on Paris; Volume VI: History of the Order of the Holy Spirit (of which Saint-Foix...

First edition.
Original notice by Henri de Latouche.
Bradel binding in full mustard boards, smooth spine with small tears and slight lacks, red Russia morocco title-label, small stains on boards, lower corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some foxing affecting mainly the first and last pages.

New edition, with some parts in first edition, carefully collated with the first editions and augmented with a large number of variants.
Half green sheep bindings, spines slightly faded with four fine raised bands set with friezes and gilt fillets as well as wavy lines and blind typographical motifs, navy sheep title and volume labels, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary English Romantic bindings signed by Charles Hering.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece to the first volume.
Handsome copies almost entirely free from foxing, elegantly bound by one of the greatest English binders of the period.

Edition illustrated with 10 figures drawn and engraved by Peyron.
Full speckled blonde sheep bindings, smooth spines ornately decorated with gilt compartments, one tiny wormhole to the head of the spine of the second volume, red Russian morocco title and volume labels with slight rubbing, gilt roulettes on the headcaps, frames of gilt dentelles and tools, light scratches to the boards, gilt friezes and tools on the leading edges, two corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary bindings.
Handsome copy, free from foxing, attractively housed in decorative contemporary bindings.

New edition.
Half cherry red calf binding, spine with four fine raised bands set with gilt roulettes decorated with gilt and blind romantic decorative motifs, title-labels and author's name in dark red calf, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, corners very slightly bumped, contemporary romantic binding.
Some browning and light foxing on some pages.
A handsome copy.

First edition. Illustrated with two folding maps in the second volume, showing the states of Roman tribes.
Full grained calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title label and volume labels. A small lack to the cover of volume I. Pale and light yellow dampstain at beginning of work. Handsome copy.
These works contain a memoir on the life of Boindin by Boindin himself, his theatrical pieces, volume II containing various studies and research by the author: on the sounds of language (phonetic studies), on Roman names, on Roman tribes, and finally on ancient theatre. Boindin was an essential figure in 18th-century intellectual life, one of the central figures at café Procope...

New edition expanded with the English text for the "best pieces" and illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Kneller, ornamented by Marillier and engraved by Lebeau, as well as 17 fine figures by Marillier engraved by Dambrun, Duflos, Gaucher, Godefroy et al.
Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Smooth spines ornately gilt in compartments with floral and star motifs, as well as small bird tools, blonde morocco title and volume labels. Covers triple-ruled with stars at corners. All edges marbled. One headcap damaged at corner. Despite this minor flaw, very handsome copy, very fresh, of this beautifully illustrated work.
Edition prepared by Abbé de La...

First collected edition. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full calf bindings with scale pattern. Decorated raised band spines. Red morocco title labels. Head caps slightly worn; same for 6 tail caps. Upper joints of volumes II, III, IV, V, VIII, IX and X partly cracked. Many corners bumped. Most half-titles were not bound into the volumes. Despite these defects, a set with good general appearance, decorative.
In addition to the poetic, dramatic, and critical works, and the fables, this edition contains various letters about De La Motte and his famous correspondence with the Duchess of Lambert at the end of his life. It should be noted that he was the author of L'Europe...

Collected edition.
Bradel binding in full dark brown cardboard, smooth spine faded with traces of rubbing and some losses, hazel shagreen title-label with Malherbe's name in gilt, corners slightly bumped.
With an engraved portrait of Boileau as frontispiece.
Printed in two columns.
Copy almost entirely free from foxing.

Elzevirian edition with some parts of the text in first edition.
Full black paper boards binding, spine in four compartments decorated with gilt compartments and gilt fillets, two small tears without loss to joints, boards with blind frames, top and edges gilt.
Handsome copy almost free from foxing.

First collected edition.
Tears with lacks to head and foot of spine of temporary binding, some minor foxing without gravity.

First edition.
Plain paper cover.
Rare.

Pléiade library edition printed on India paper.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheepskin, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, complete with its cellophane wrapper.
A tiny tear with small loss at head of cellophane wrapper, otherwise a handsome copy.

Definitive edition.
Autograph inscription from H.R. Lenormand to Albert Thibaudet.
Spine sunned, front cover detached.

New edition, printed on laid paper, revised and corrected from the best texts, notably from the 1732 edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and ornaments, with dotted patterns and gilt fillets, date at tail, top edge gilt.
With notes by Tenant De Latour.