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The 4th volume contains at the same address 4 chosen dramatic works (Le Cid by Corneille, Don Japhet d'Armenie by Scarron, etc.) followed by the supplement to the works of Rousseau "Containing the pieces that the Author has rejected from his Edition" published at the London address at Tonson and Wats (1734).
The illustration includes 4 frontispieces, in volume 1 an allegorical figure of Cheron engraved by Bernard Picard (1673-1733), in volume 2 a title-frontispiece after Picart, in volume 3 and 4 the same frontispiece by Picart dated 1725. Titles in red and black adorned with intaglio engraved vignettes.
Text embellished with pretty typographical ornaments engraved on wood.
Contains the Odes, Cantatas, Epistles, Allegories, Epigrams, and comedies (Le flatteur, Le capricieux, Le caffé, La mandragore...).
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was considered the greatest lyric poet of his time, we owe him above all the writing of the first French cantatas, this secular genre which was set to music by the most brilliant composers. The academicism of Rousseau's writing, however, did not survive him.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau
?Miscellaneous works of Mr. Rousseau
Changuion, Amsterdam, 1734 & London
Small in-12 (14 x 8.5 cm); (4),XXXVI,342,(4); (4),360,(8); (4),428; +370+190
Very fine contemporary bindings in full glazed calfskin, ribbed spine adorned with title labels in morocco and richly decorated with special gold stamped irons.
Very decorative set, luminous gilding. Bindings in very good condition, 3 corners a little pierced. Fresh and clean interiors. In volumes 1.2 & 3 wettings in the lower part, rather discreet, on certain pronounced sheets.
Subject ; J.-B. ROUSSEAU / Bernard PICART - Various works + Supplement 1734 + Selected works Scarron & Corneille 67361193
