Étienne Pavillon - Oeuvres de M. Pavillon - 1720





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Étienne Pavillon, Oeuvres de M. Pavillon, Amsterdam Henry du Sauzet, 1720, first edition, French, in-12, full calf binding with raised bands, 393 pages, 15.5 x 10 cm, good condition.
Description from the seller
Étienne Pavillon (1632-1705). Oeuvres de M. Pavillon. Amsterdam, Henry du Sauzet, 1720, (13) ff. 393 pp., (7) ff.
A duodecimo volume (155x110 mm), full calf, spine with raised bands ornamented, title-piece of red morocco (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, losses on the upper joints and at the headcaps. Interior fresh
Original edition
Posthumous collection of the writings of Étienne Pavillon, poet, lawyer and member of the Académie française, known for his light, worldly and gallant poetry in the tradition of Voiture and Benserade.
The volume contains stanzas, madrigals, idylls, epistles, letters in verse and prose, as well as pieces of circumstance, gallant poems, moral reflections and academic texts. Notably, there are reflections on love, beauty, the vanity of the world, worldly usages and social relations, as well as his discurso de réception at the Académie française and the eulogy dedicated to the author.
Seller's Story
Étienne Pavillon (1632-1705). Oeuvres de M. Pavillon. Amsterdam, Henry du Sauzet, 1720, (13) ff. 393 pp., (7) ff.
A duodecimo volume (155x110 mm), full calf, spine with raised bands ornamented, title-piece of red morocco (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, losses on the upper joints and at the headcaps. Interior fresh
Original edition
Posthumous collection of the writings of Étienne Pavillon, poet, lawyer and member of the Académie française, known for his light, worldly and gallant poetry in the tradition of Voiture and Benserade.
The volume contains stanzas, madrigals, idylls, epistles, letters in verse and prose, as well as pieces of circumstance, gallant poems, moral reflections and academic texts. Notably, there are reflections on love, beauty, the vanity of the world, worldly usages and social relations, as well as his discurso de réception at the Académie française and the eulogy dedicated to the author.

