BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX (Nicolas). Works ..., With historical... Lot 271

BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX (Nicolas). Works [...], With historical clarifications, given by himself. In The Hague, With Pierre De Hondt, 1729. 2 volumes in-folio, calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, spine with ornate nerves (period binding)." New Edition revised, corrected & increased with various Remarks. "An allegorical frontispiece, a portrait of Erasmus as a vignette on the title, six out-of-text figures engraved by Bernard PICART (for Le Lutrin); vignettes in the endpapers.Portrait of the Princess of Wales and dedication plate with her arms in deficit; wet stamp on the titles; restored spine and corners.Cohen, 166 (reprint of the 1718 edition of which "the frontispiece has been regraded and the endpapers removed or modified").