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"Oeuvres de M. Boileau Despréaux". Complete set in 2 volumes. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. Genève, 1780. 12 x 7 cm., 192 + 179 pages. Text in French. Period full leather, gilt to spines, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Slight wear to spines and corners, front flyleaf from volume 1 missing else in good condition. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (French: [nikɔla bwalo depʁeo]; 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.
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