DORAT Claude-Joseph et de PEZAI Alexandre Collection de pièces en vers. Genève et Paris, Jorry, 1766 - 1767. In-8°, faux-titre - title - frontispiece - 36 - 34 - 39 - 42 - (1ff prospectus of Dorat's editions at Jorry) - 31 - 23 - 32pp. Bound in contemporary full porphyry calf, triple gilt fillets on covers, richly decorated smooth spine, havana morocco title page, marbled edges (binding signed Prudhomme l'aîné). Beautiful collection of seven texts by Dorat, published by the bookseller Sébastien Jorry, printed on large paper and illustrated by Eisen with 10 vignettes, 10 figures and 7 culs-de-lampe, all finely engraved on copper. Included are: Zelis au bain, Lettres de Barnevelt dans sa prison à Truman son ami, Lettre de Zeïla à Valcour, Réponse de Valcour à Zeïla précédée d'une lettre de l'auteur à une femme qu'il ne connaît pas, Lettre de Valcour à son père, Lettre de Julie fille d'Auguste à Ovide, Lettre d'Ovide à Julie précédée d'une lettre en prose à M. Diderot. A very fine copy, with full margins, of this charming collection in a luxury edition of the period.
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