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Elegant and refined complete edition of the works of the famous French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, enriched with numerous rich title pages, tailpieces and engravings beyond the text. Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux with historical clarifications, given by himself, New Edition revised, corrected & augmented, The Hague, at Isaac Vaillant, Pierre Gosse, Pierre de Hondt, 1722. 4 volumes bound into 2 volumes. COMPLETE WORK. Vol. I (Volumes I-II): pp. (IV), XLVI, (II), 436, VIII, 407. COMPLETE. Vol. II (Volumes III-IV): pp. (IV), 407, (V), 308. COMPLETE. Copies with leaves in overall good/good-to-very-good condition, with the usual signs of use and age. Contemporary bindings in full parchment with the title and volume numbers handwritten on the spine, with some wear and edge loss but still well preserved overall. White endpapers. Red edges. Prestigious provenance: there are ex-libris labels from the extinct noble private library, "Umbrosian," applied to the front free endpaper of each volume.
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