Oeuvres diverses du Sieur D avec le traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours traduit du Grec de Longin.
167413767Paris: Claude Barbin pr. by Denys Thierry 1674. 4to 25.3 cm 10". Frontis. 4 178 12 3102 10 index & colophon pp. 1 plt. <br><br>Early edition following the first of 1670; this is the first edition to appear under the Oeuvres title and contains nine satires the first four epistles L'art poëtique and a number of other shorter pieces followed by the Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours translated from Longinus. The handsomely printed volume has much of its text set in italic type decorated with woodcut tailpieces typographic and woodcut headpieces and ornamental capitals. Margins are generous layout is attractive. P. Landry designed and engraved the classically themed frontispiece with the plate preceding Le Lutrin having been done by F. Chausseau.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: 19th-century signed binding by Léon Gruel: Oxblood morocco framed in gilt double fillets containing a background of gilt-stamped fleurs-de-lis around a central ornamented cartouche. Spine gilt extra with elaborate gilt-stamped inner dentelles over silk endpapers. All edges gilt over marbling. => Silk bookmarker woven with binder's information!<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front fly-leaf with armorial bookplate of New York attorney and book collector Frederic Robert Halsey and with decorative medieval-inspired bookplate of "G.E." Volume with laid-in handwritten note signed by Gruel on Gruel-Engelmann letterhead dated 1892. Later in the collection of Mary MacMillan Norton sans indicia . . . a woman who knew how to pick books! <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Brunet I 1056; DeBacker Auteurs du XVIIe siècle 1020; Tchemerzine II 271. Binding as above nearly perfect save for just a touch of rubbing to the spine extremities in cloth-covered slipcase worn with cloth starting to split over edges. Frontispiece and title-page separating from binding; title with red-tinted signs near edges that the marbling process did not go entirely smoothly; upper margins of several other leaves with hints of very faint waterstaining. Otherwise clean and quite lovely. Claude Barbin (pr. by Denys Thierry) hardcover books
