French Fine Binding AGRIPPA D’AUBIGNE TRAGEDY Hand Numbered Leather Vol 3-4 1932

Description: AGRIPPA D’AUBIGNE Les Tragiques. Edition critique avec introduction et commentaire par A. Garnier et J. Plattard. Tomes III & IV Bound together.Tomes III: LIVRES IV ET V (226 pages)Tome IV: LIVRES VI ET VII (with Index Historique, Lexique Grammatical, Bibliographie 244 pages)Published by Librairie Droz, Paris, 1932 & 1933. FRENCH LANGUAGE BOOK. Limited edition printed on Van Gelder paper (the Dutch paper maker founded in 1685). Both volumes hand-numbered and initialed #95 of 100 copies. Very good half-leather bound, marbled boards, deckled edges (with many unopened pages), dyed topedge, wonderfully designed bookplate of previous owner M.H.P Thieme, to front flyeaf, clean unmarked text. 8vo, 226 & 244 pages bound together. Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552 – 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, English poet Keith Bosley has called d'Aubigné, "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Bosley added, however, that after d'Aubigné's death he "was forgotten until the Romantics rediscovered him." Loc: B1StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackFrench Fine Binding AGRIPPA D’AUBIGNE TRAGEDY Hand Numbered Leather Vol 3-4 1932 AGRIPPA D’AUBIGNE Les Tragiques. Edition critique avec introduction et commentaire par A. Garnier et J. Plattard. Tomes III & IV Bound together.Tomes III: LIVRES IV ET V (226 pages)Tome IV: LIVRES VI ET VII (with Index Historique, Lexique Grammatical, Bibliographie 244 pages)Published by Librairie Droz, Paris, 1932 & 1933. FRENCH LANGUAGE BOOK. Limited edition printed on Van Gelder paper (the Dutch paper maker founded in 1685). Both volumes hand-numbered and initialed #95 of 100 copies. Very good half-leather bound, marbled boards, deckled edges (with many unopened pages), dyed topedge, wonderfully designed bookplate of previous owner M.H.P Thieme, to front flyeaf, clean unmarked text. 8vo, 226 & 244 pages bound together. Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552 – 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, English poet Keith Bosley has called d'Aubigné, "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Bosley added, however, that after d'Aubigné's death he "was forgotten until the Romantics rediscovered him." Loc: B1

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