Jacques VERGIER - Oeuvres de Vergier - 1752

Jacques VERGIER.

Works by Vergier.

1752, Briaconnet, Lausanne.
Two volumes bound into one volume, 12mo, with XX-288 pages; and 292 pages, full ochre morocco binding by HARDY. Spine with five raised threads adorned with rosettes, the title, and the date and place at the tail, stamped in fine gold, large central fleuron on the boards, all edges gilded with translucence, gilded friezes on the borders of the endpapers with the binder’s gold signature on the first.
Very good overall condition, minimal wear on one edge and corners, interior fresh.
Illustrated hors-texte portrait of Clavareau engraved by Fessard, a charming collective edition comprising the works in verse and prose by this son of a Lyonnais bootmaker who spent his life in Paris among the beaux esprits of the era and who was murdered in 1720 in the streets of Montmartre by affiliates of the Cartouche gang. His works were printed only after his death. They consist of numerous poems (epistles, odes, fables and songs) written in a light and witty style, and about twenty tales in the vein of La Fontaine. Lachèvre III, 563; Quérard X, 110.