Author: DE LILLE (Jacques):
Title: The Gardens, A Poem Translated from the French of the Abbé de Lille by Mrs. Montolieu. The Second Edition.
Description: London: Prined by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, And sld by Robson..., 1805. Large 8vo, 225 x 122 mms., pp/ [3] - 146 [147 Note, 148 blank], including half-title, four full-page engraved places facing each of the four cantos, engraved tail-pieces, contemporary calf, gilt borders on covers, neatly rebackd with darker calf, gilt spine, black leather labels. A very good copy. The British woman of letters Maria Henrietta Montolieu (1765-1836) first published this translation of Jacques de Lille's poems in 1798, with attractive plates by Bartolozzi, which are also reproduced in this volume. Copies that are complete with all the plates are scarce in commerce. Montolieu established herself as an able translator, and her Enchanted Plants: Fables in Verse (1800) and The Festival of the Rose (1802) proved to be very popular.

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