[MARIE-LOUISE]. ROUSSEAU Jean-Baptiste (1670-1741).

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[MARIE-LOUISE]. ROUSSEAU Jean-Baptiste (1670-1741).
Works. New edition; with a historical and literary commentary, preceded by a new essay on the life and writings of the author. Paris, Lefèvre, 1820. 5 volumes in-8, long-grained red morocco, framed with fillets and foliate scroll, crowned numeral in the center, smooth spine decorated, inner scroll, lining and endpapers of blue moire, gilt edges (Period binding). The best edition of the works of this poet and playwright. Portrait of the author engraved on copperplate by Delvaux, in proof before the letter. Beautiful copy on large vellum paper with the crowned figure of Marie-Louise, former empress of the French. It is mentioned in the catalog of the library of the imperial couple of 1931 under the n° 261. It is complete with fifty free and bawdy epigrams which are not found in all copies (t. II, pp. 376-402). Discharge of a paper bookmark in the inner margin of six pages in volumes I (pp. 208-209), III (pp. 2-3) and V (pp. 24-25). Fine restorations to a few of the spines, small epidermis on the upper cover of volume V. Provenance: Calvin Bullock (bookplate).
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