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Oeuvres de Colardeau, de la Académie Françoise. Tome Premier ... Tome Second
by COLARDEAU, [Charles Pierre]
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- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Paris: Charles Froment, 1825. Reprint. Two Vols. in Full Leather. Very Good. Two vols. 16mo. Pp. (4), viii, 248. Engraved frontis. Pp. (4), 214. Contemporary calf with four raised bands, borders and vignettes elaborately tooled in blind, dentelles, gilt-tooled borders and spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Spines a bit faded to a mellow brown. Mild rubbing, light foxing that's mostly marginal; faint dampstain first 10 leaves of vol. II; grease pencil scribble p. 185 of vol. II. An attractive set, handsomely bound. A later collected-edition of these 18th century works, exquisitely bound by Ponge. Elected to the Académie in the year of his death, Charles Pierre Colardeau (1732-76) is best remembered for Héroides, written after the manner of Ovid, as well as a famous Lettre d'Héloise à Abelard, included in the first volume. Includes an eight-page "Notice sur Colardeau." Vol. II concludes with Epitaphe de l'Abbé de Voisenon. See QUERARD II, p. 242.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5531
- Title
- Oeuvres de Colardeau, de la Académie Françoise. Tome Premier ... Tome Second
- Author
- COLARDEAU, [Charles Pierre]
- Format/Binding
- Two Vols. in Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Charles Froment
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1825
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