Poetry

Third enlarged edition. The first edition of 1707 and the second of 1709 from the same publisher had only one volume.

Contemporary full glazed brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with rich compartments. Red morocco title label. Headcap of volume I worn. Small lack to upper headcap of volume II. Good copy.

The author held a choice place in the literary life of his time, and his Odes had considerable success. His most famous opera libretto was L'Europe Galante, but he brought numerous innovations to the stage; a regular at the salon of the Marquise de Lambert, he was at the origin of the second Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, taking the side of the Moderns, declaring verses and the rule of three unities in theatre useless. If his poetry has become barely readable (although one finds the literary life of the time there), it is, like his critical work, an important testimony of an era.

The rare first edition of this collection of Fourierist poems.
Our copy is presented in temporary green soft cardboard covers, smooth sandy spine with manuscript notations of the author's name and title of the work, original covers preserved, but first flyleaf with marginal lacks.

First collected edition, one of 15 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies.
A very good copy.
Rare. 

Fifth edition, published at the same time as the quarto edition. The first edition dates from 1650.

Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Ornamented spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Lower joint partly split. Relatively invisible restorations to headcaps.

The work contains the letters and various poems of the author. Voiture (1597-1648) was throughout his life a gallant and courtier, brilliant in the salons and playing games. His epistolary talent earned him the distinction of making prose fashionable in France for a long time, and his poetry excels in the mannerist and precious tone, even though he knows how to be trivial when necessary. He is an essential figure of the literary scene of the early 17th century, a true Molière character.

New edition, the first of which appears to have been published by the same publisher in 1599.

Contemporary full calf binding. Attractively ornamented spine with raised bands, featuring a central tool of two interlaced Cs. Red morocco title label. Edges gilt. A one-centimeter lack to the last compartment, and split with small lack to foot headcap, first blank endpaper partly detached. Rubbing. Foxing.

Edition established by Henri Estienne the younger and published by Paul Estienne, his son, who practiced his printing trade from 1599 to 1526. This bilingual edition includes, besides the works of Pindar, the Greek poets: Anacreon, Sappho...