Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux : avec des eclaircissemens historiques (v.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux : avec des eclaircissemens historiques (v.1)
Classmark: Buckmaster Collection 1/BOI
Creator(s): Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636-1711)
Additional creator(s): Desmaizeaux, Pierre (1673?-1745) (Other); Walther, George Conrad (Other)
Related people: Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711; Desmaizeaux, Pierre; Walther, George Conrad
Publisher: Chez George Conrad Walther Libraire di Roi avec privilege
Publication city: A Dresde
Date(s): 1746
Language: French
Size and medium: 4 v ([7] leaves of plates)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/226637
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012284189705181
Description
Rubricated t.p.s with engraved title-vignettes, head and tailpieces. Vol.1 has added engraved title-page depicting author's portrait.
The plates and title-vignettes all signed Bernigeroth.
"Imprimé a Leipsic par Jean Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf 1746"--colophon.
Desmaizeaux first published Vie de Boileau-Despréaux in 1712. Cf. BN, NUC. Separately paged.
Based on the 1729 edition at The Hague. Cf. editorś preface and dedication, signed George Conrad Walker.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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