Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau Despreaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711.

Contributor:

Valincour, Jean-Baptiste-Henri Du Trousset de, 1653-1730.

Renaudot, Eusèbe, 1646-1720.

Billiot, Esprit, 1667-1731, printer.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1713

Language:

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)

Oswald, Rich. Alex. (autograph, Auchincruive)

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages, 772 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 29 cm (4to)

Edition:

Nouvelle edition, revuë & augmentée.

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Esprit Billiot ..., MDCCXIII [1713]

Notes:

Title page printed in red and black.

Engraved portrait of Boileau on frontispiece.

In two parts with continuous pagination and signatures; part 2 with special half-title: Oeuvres en prose de M. Boileau des Preaux. Seconde partie (p. [347].

Illustrated with 6 full page engravings.

This edition often attributed to the editorship of J.B.H. du Trousset de Valincour and Eusèbe Renaudot. Cf. E. Magne, Bibliographie générale des oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, no. 559.

"Discours que monsieur de Valincour ... prononça à la reception de monsieur l'abbé d'Estrées"--Prelim. p. [9]-[17].

Many of the individual works have special half-titles.

Signatures: pi1 ã⁴ ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ õ² A-5D⁴ 5E⁴(-5E4).

Woodcuts: device; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Library's copy with a shelfmark label from Auchincruive on front pastedown.

OCLC:

1357509