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Includes the five volumes of Works; without the two volumes of the 'Curious Mixture' and the two volumes entitled: "The Memoirs of the Life of Count D***..., written by M. de Saint-Evremond" (in reality written by the Abbé de Villiers ).
Copy in elegant contemporary binding, full marbled tan calfskin, ribbed spine adorned with fleurons and gilt boxes. Mosaic old red morocco pieces. Sores casters on the cuts.
Condition: Decorative and attractive bindings. Very slight rubbing and small lack of fragments for 3 caps. Clean interiors, some foxing and yellowed pages. In good condition.
Charles Marguetel de Saint-Denis, lord of Saint-Évremond (1614-1703), libertine writer who had the particularity of having been well known during his lifetime but published mainly after his death.
He was a moralist and a libertine critic, his rigor and his critical independence announced the philosophers of the Enlightenment, and he was perhaps the first author who made criticism a profession. He paid little attention to his writings, which circulated mainly in manuscript during his lifetime.
Author: Saint-Evremond; Pierre Des Maizeaux
Title: Works of Monsieur de Saint-Evremond. With the life of the author by Monsieur Des Maizeaux. New edition, Decorated with Figures & Vignettes in intaglio.
Publisher: S.l.s.n. 1740. 5 volumes in -12 of xxiv-320-(1)-173pp. + 3ff. 410pp. + 3ff. 411pp. + 490pp. + 440pp.
Subject: Saint Evremond Illustrated works Theater Poetry Biography Of Maizeaux Beautiful Binding 1740 67448845
