Title: La petite Henriade, ou l’enfance d’Henri IV. Poëme en trois chants, avec notes historiques et littéraires; présenté à S. A. R. M[onsei]g[neu]r le duc de Bordeaux, par Maizony de Lauréal, Auteur de la traduction des Bucoliques de Virgile [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> La petite Henriade, ou l’enfance d’Henri IV. Poëme en trois chants, avec notes historiques et littéraires; présenté à S. A. R. M[onsei]g[neu]r le duc de Bordeaux, par Maizony de Lauréal, Auteur de la traduction des Bucoliques de Virgile en vers français, avec les imitations en plusieurs langues.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 12mo. pp. [2], vi, 284. Contemporary boards, top hinge cracked but holding. Half-title with printed guarantee on verso (‘Je regarderai comme contrefait tout exemplaire qui ne sera pas revêtu de ma signature’) and signed by the author beneath, engraved portrait of Henri IV as a boy. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The text of the long poem is on pp. 1-104, extensive notes are following on pp. [105]-255, and at end is an ‘Ode sur le rétablissement de la statue équestre de Henri-le-Grand’ and ‘Le Bearnais, chanson Historique’ to p. 276, followed by ‘Errata et Additions’, pp. 277-84.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First edition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Newly re-established as the fabricator of an epic poem on the destruction of Pompeii, attributed deceitfully to the Roman poet Lucius Florus, Maizony may deserve more literary attention, beyond his forgery, than hitherto accorded him. This is apparently his earliest published poem, reprinted several times, but evidently rare in its first appearance – with an appropriate (for Maizony) signed disclaimer of ‘contrefait’ versions (as if any might exist of such a work!). WorldCat lists only the BNF copy.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_8755821" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>