BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas. - OEuvres diverses... with the T - Lot 121

BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas. - OEuvres diverses... with the Traité du sublime, ou du merveilleux dans le discours. Translated from the Greek by Longin. Nouvelle Edition, reveuë & augmentée.- A Paris, chez Denys Thierry, 1701.- 2 parts bound in one volume in-4; fawn calf, ribbed spine richly decorated with gilded fillets, fleurons and motifs, red morocco title-piece, triple framing of gilded fillets on the covers, gilded roulette inside and on the edges (Period binding). The last edition published during Boileau's lifetime, it features a frontispiece engraved by P. Landry and two full-page engravings by Chauveau (dated 1674), including one hors texte. Copy in quarto format in a pleasant and decorative contemporary binding, top cover and corners slightly worn, slight brown stains on boards.