Author: J N Bouilly
Title: Les Encouragemens de la Jeunesse
Description: Londres, Chez Dulau et Co, 1821. Leather. A new edition of this French work by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. A book addressed to the youth by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for his libretto concerned with a woman disguised as a man to rescue her husband from prison, inspiration for Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio.'A new edition of this work. Rebound in full calf with four raised bands, titles in gilt to morocco spine label, marbled edges and endpapers. Externally with bumping to head and tail of spine, rubbed to joints and extremities, boards lightly marked. Previous ownership ink inscription to verso front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally very clean throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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