Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux
Subtitle: avec des éclaircissemens historiques donnez par lui-meme
Edition: Nouvelle edition revuë, corrigée & augmentée de diverses remarques / enrichie de figures gravées par Bernard Picart le Romain.
Publisher: Chez P. Gosse & J. Neaulme
Published: 1729
Place of publication: A La Haye
Language: fre
Notes: Folio edition; also published in the same year in an octavo ed. in 4 v.

One of 4 issues of the folio ed.; cf. Magne.

Title pages printed in red and black.

Each page of text within border of type ornaments.

Vol. 1 contains an engraved port. of the dedicatee, Charlotte, consort of George II, by F. Gunst after G. Kneller. ^In this state of the port., Charlotte is identified as Princess of Wales.

Engraved title vignettes, headpieces, and tailpieces.

Magne, E. ^Bib. générale des œuvres de Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, 590.

Gift; Joseph Bertram; 21 September 1999; 99-171.

From the library of Sir James Dashwood, with his bookplates.

Bound in contemporary tan calf, spine gilt, edges gilt over marbling.