Author: SUBLIGNY (Adrien Thomas Perdou de):
Title: La Fausse Clelie Histoire Francoise, Galante Et Comique. Edition Nouvelle.
Description: A Nymergue, Chez Regnier Smetius 1680 12mo, 125 x 70 mms., pp. [viii], 322 [323 - 368 index], including engraved title-page, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label; leaves before engraved title-page removed, binding a little rubbed, but a very good copy. This curious volume of tales was first published in Holland in 1670 and frequently reprinted. It was translated into English in 1678 as The Mock-Clelia: being a comical history of French gallantries, and novels, in imitation of Dom Quixote. This sentimental novel set in Vaux-le-Vicomte, France, with a plot full of all the tropes of classic sentimental novels about young girls in danger of predatory reprobates. The hero, the Marquis de Ribeville falls in love with a young girl. She pretend to be Clélie, the heroine of a novel by Madame de Scuery. The work is thus set in classical antiquity, and there are various structural and thematic corollaries with Don Quixote. OCLC records no copy of this imprint.

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