Parny ( Evariste )Livre Rare Book
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1805FGN13-C-14Paris: Au Magazin de Librairie 1805. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 5.5" by 3.5". None. A presumed first edition of 'The Stolen Wallet' a collection of three of Parny's poems. A first edition.Evariste de Parny was a French poet well known in the nineteenth century for his lyric poems especially the Posies Erotiques 1778-81 and the prose-poems in Chansons Madcasses 1787. He also wrote much humorous verse including the anti-religious La Guerre des Dieux 1799 and Le Paradis perdu 1805. The latter is a parody of Milton's Paradise Lost in four relatively short cantos.This work contains 'Le Paradis perdu' Paradise Lost a poem in four songs; 'Les Desguisements de Venus' The Disguises of Venus and 'Les Galanteries de la Bible' The Gallantries of the Bible'. A smart collection of French verse. In a decorative full calf binding with marbled boards. Externally sound with slight rubbing. Internally firmly bound. Generally clean with just some light scattered foxing.There is a copperplate ink signature to the title page and ink mark to the front free endpaper. Very Good Au Magazin de Librairie hardcover
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