Author: Saint-Évremond, Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de.
Title: Oeuvres de Monsieur de Saint-Evremond : publiés sur ses manuscrits, avec la vie de l'auteur, par Mr. Des Maizeaux [Volume 1-5]. With : Mélanges curieux des meilleures pièces attribuées à Mr. de Saint-Evremond et de quelques autres ouvrages rares ou nouveaux [Volume 1-2].
Description: A Amsterdam : Chez Cóvens et Mortier, 1726. [4ème édition, revuë, corrigée et augmentée]. 7 Volumes. Orig. mottled calf bindings with gilt spine & red letterpiece. xxx,367,[3],169,[19]; [8],460,[12]; [8],443,[17]; [8],490,[17]; [12]418,[14]; xxxiv,516,[15],[33]; [8],396 pp. 12mo. Title-page printed in red & black. Fine complete uniform set. With puplisher's catalogue at the end of vol. 6. With 7 engraved frontispieces & 7 engraved plates by by B. Picart le Romain. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Volume 1 : [4ème édition]. With engraved frontispiece. Contains : Monsieur de Saint-Evremond; Les Academiciens : comedie. With 1 engraved plate; Volume 2-5 : Oeuvres de Monsieur de Saint-Evremond. [4ème édition]. Each with engraved frontispiece & 1 engraved plate. Volume 6-7 : Mélanges curieux des meilleures pièces attribuées à Mr. de Saint-Evremond et de quelques autres ouvrages rares ou nouveaux. [3ème édition, revuë, corrigée et augmentée]. With engraved frontispiece & engraved plate. In volume 2 (7) portrait of Hortence Mancini, duchess de Mazarin. Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond (1613-1703) was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659). He is buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster. He wrote for his friends and did not intend his work to be published, although a few of his pieces were leaked in his lifetime. He empowered Pierre Des Maizeaux (1673-1745) to publish his works after his death, and they were published in London (2 vols., 1705), and often reprinted. His masterpiece in irony is the so-called Conversation du maréchal d'Hocquincourt avec le père Canaye (the latter a Jesuit and Saint-Évremond's master at school), which has been frequently classed with the Lettres provinciales. His oeuvres meslées, edited from the manuscripts by Silvestre and Des Maizeaux, were printed by Jacob Tonson (London, 1705, 2 vols.; 2nd ed., 3 vols., 1709), with a notice by Des Maizeaux. His correspondence with Ninon de l'Enclos, whose fast friend he was, was published in 1752; La Comédie des académistes, written in 1643, was printed in 1650. Modern editions of his works are by Hippeau (Paris, 1852), C Giraud (Paris, 1865), and a selection (1881) with a notice by M. de Lescure. Among his plays is one called Politick Would-be, modelled on a character from Ben Jonson's Volpone. This is a very good uniform 7-volume set of the 4th/3th edition published in Amsterdam. The first Amsterdam edition was published in 1706.

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