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1802327559A Paris: chez Billois Libraire quai des Augustins No. 37 1802. Nouvelle édition. Hardcover. Poor copy bound in full aniline calf with gilt decorated tooling to the spine and boards. Spine and front board loosely attached. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Minor library marks remain. Physical description; vol. IV only: 496 pages. Subjects; Virgil. Collected writings of Virigil. A Paris: chez Billois, Libraire, quai des Augustins, No. 37 hardcover
182214785Paris: Genets Jeune 1822. Hardcover. g. 4 volumes in two. 12mo. 219pp. 182pp. 173pp. 250pp. 1/4 leather over paper covered boards with gilt lettering on red to spines. French translation of the literary classic “Gulliver's Travels.†Gulliver's episodic series of adventures on far off island satirize European politics and parody the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. Captioned full-page copper engraved frontispieces to all volumes i.e. four frontispieces. The work was translated by the Abbe Pierre François Guyot-Desfontaines an important 18th century journalist critic translator and historian. He is often considered the founder of modern literary criticism and journalism in France. Desfontaines attempted to plagiarize Swift's work and published it in Amsterdam as his own work adopted from an English manuscript. Additional full-page copper engraving to all volumes i.e. four. Altogether 8 copper engravings. With an introduction by the translator dated 1727. Text in French. Head and tail of spines slightly bumped. Minor to head of spine of second book. Corners rubbed and slightly worn. Scuffing and rubbing to boards. Loose but present ribbon marker to book 2. In overall good condition. Genets Jeune hardcover
18126927A Paris 1812. Folio. Fine Later hcalf in old style with raised bands. - Consisting of 42 engr.plates of which 30 are in fine handcolouring Numb. 1-42. Some plates dampstained in upper part mostly effecting upper margins. hardcover
