Nouvelle Allégorique ou Histoire des Derniers Troubles Arrivez au Royaume D éloquence.

Antoine FURETIERE.

Verlag: Paris: Chez Guillaume de Luyne, 1658

Paris: Chez Guillaume de Luyne, 1658, First Edition. Collation: A to F in gatherings of 12, G in gathering of 4, 152pp. With the scarce folding frontispiece. Full calf binding by Period Binders of Bath, in red morocco with gilt titles and decoration to the spine and boards. Rare first edition. Antoine Furetière (28 December 1619 14 May 1688), was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer. He was born in Paris, the son of an employee of the royal household. He studied law and worked for a time as an attorney and tax assessor. Later he became a Catholic clergyman and, after various promotions, the abbot of Chalivoy in the diocese of Bourges in 1662. Thanks to the leisure he enjoyed as a clergyman, he was able to devote himself to letters. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1662 in virtue of his satire Nouvelle allégorique, ou histoire des derniers troubles arrivés au royaume d'éloquence (1658) among other works. One of Furetière's most important literary works was Le Roman bourgeois (1666). This satirical novel described the everyday life of his time, especially within the legal profession, and it cast ridicule on the fashionable romances of Madeleine de Scudéry and of Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède. Because of its similarity to Paul Scarron's Le Roman comique (1651, 1657), it was translated into English as Scarron's City Romance in 1671. With a self-conscious narrator who comments on his techniques and disregards the conventions of the novel, it anticipates Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759 67). At the time of its founding, the Académie française had been entrusted with the task of producing a complete dictionary of the French language. At first, Furetière participated in the collaborative project with enthusiasm, but he eventually grew frustrated with his colleagues' approach and slow progress and began work on his own dictionary, probably around 1676-78. When members of the academy heard that Furetière was about to publish his dictionary, they interfered, alleging that he had stolen their material and violated the monopoly they had held on French dictionaries since 1672. In 1685, after fierce recrimination on both sides, Furetière was expelled from the academy, and the French government revoked his permission to publish the dictionary. In 1690, Furetière's Dictionaire universel was published posthumously in the Netherlands with a Preface prepared by his friend Pierre Bayle. Approximately 5 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles, 4 raised bands dividing 5 compartments, 4 of which have gilt decorations, the tips of the spine also have a gilt decoration. Joints good condition sound. Corners good condition. Boards good condition red leather boards with gilt edged decoration, the outer edges of the boards also have a gilt line along them. Page edges good condition all edges speckled, lightly tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition plain paste downs, front paste down has a bookplate Robert J Hayhurst , both paste downs have a gilt decoration to 3 sides, the front paste down also has the book binders name along the bottom edge Period Binders of Bath . End papers good condition plain end papers, written on one of the front free end papers is W830 Fort Rare Willems, lightly tanned with some foxing to the edges. Title good condition b/w pictorial design to the centre, page is tanned with some foxing. Pages good condition there is a fold out frontispiece, text is in French, pages are lightly tanned throughout. Binding good condition sound, nice attractive copy. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1658 Binding: Hardback. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1556352091796

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Titel: Nouvelle Allégorique ou Histoire des ...
Verlag: Paris: Chez Guillaume de Luyne
Erscheinungsdatum: 1658
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Auflage: 1st Edition