Pierre-Joseph Bernard - Oeuvres completes de M. Bernard - 1775

Splendid exemplar bound in a luxurious full red morocco, smooth spine adorned with a rich floral ornament in small gilt tools, triple rule of gilt on the boards, inner parchment, all edges gilded.

Nice edition published in London without a publisher's name, which, according to the typographic material, appears to be related to the Cazin editions.
In overall good condition. Binding well made, wear to the headcaps, hinges and edges. Neat printing on laid paper, pretty headbands and tailpieces engraved. Paper slightly yellowed with some scattered foxing without severity. Endpapers renewed, with handwritten notes on the first and last leaves.

Provenance; Edouard Ferry Schutzenberger (1820-1887). (former master of the order of the Avicats of St Dié) with an ex-libris pasted to the first pastedown. / Ex-libris of Charles Edouard, architect, pasted to the last pastedown.

AUTHOR: Pierre-Joseph Bernard
TITLE : Oeuvres completes de M. Bernard.
EDITEUR : London, Se, 1775 . in -8 size 15 x 9cm, 264 pages.

Pierre Joseph Bernard (1708 - 1775) is a French poet and playwright generally known by the nickname Gentil-Bernard given to him by Voltaire.
A soldier, he preferred salons to battlefields and was named by Mme de Pompadour bibliothécaire du roi at the château de Choisy. His short verses and his long poems "LArt d'aimer", "Phrosine" and "Mélidore" sing, each in their own way, light love, libertine love. They earned him in his lifetime the title Anacréon of France. In lieu of such a title, he retained the nickname Gentil-Bernard that Voltaire would have awarded him.