Lettre de Barnevelt, dans sa prison, a Truman, son ami, précédée d'une lettre de l'auteur

Second edition, a reprint of the original published in 1763 by the same publisher. It is illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette and a tailpiece by Eisen, engraved by De Longueil. Carefully printed; Dorat indeed ruined himself perfecting his publications, commissioning from Eisen and the engravers the very best...
Half red shagreen binding, late 19th century, signed Féchoy. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Gilt title, date at foot. Light surface wear to lower right corner. Handsome copy.
The source of this verse work by Dorat is the tragedy of Barnevelt, written in 1619 by John Fletcher and Phillip Masinger, a tragic play from Elizabethan theatre. Dorat drew his subject from it and adapted it to the French spirit, as he explains in his preface. Dorat multiplied this genre, drawing inspiration from one work to create another, as with The Letter of the Count of Comminges; Letter from Lord Velfort, etc...