THE WORKS OF THE CELEBRATED MONSIEUR VOITURE. Containing, I. His letters, and characters of the most eminent personages in the court of France. Illustrated with explanatory notes by Mons. Richelet. II. His Metamorphoses. III. Alcidalis and Zelida; or, the Undaunted Lady. A Romance. Compos'd for the entertainment of Mademoiselle de Rambouillet. Done from the Paris edition, by Mr. Ozell. To which is prefix'd, the Author's life. And a chararacter of his writings, by Mr. Pope.

VOITURE, Vincent de.

Edité par London: printed for A. Bettesworth at the Red Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row E. Curll at the Dial and Bible and J. Pemberton at the Buck and Sun both against St. Dunstan's church in Fleet-Street Price of the two volumes 6s, 1715

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Two volumes, 12mo, engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. [ii], iv, xxi, [iii] advertisements, 336; 99, [1], 252; contemporary panelled calf, second volume rather more worn than the first, with both joints quite significantly cracked. First edition thus: there had been an earlier collection published by Samuel Briscoe (1705) but this is a newly-edited version. The first volume, and the first part of the second, contain the letters, and the second volume is largely made up of the romance Alcidalis and Zelida. New to this edition is the inclusion of Pope's poem 'To a Young Lady, with the Works of Voiture', which had been printed in 1712 in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (Griffith 6), and which was later retitled 'Epistle to Miss Blount with the works of Voiture' although, as the Twickenham edition comments, it may have been originally drafted before Pope came to know either of the Blount sisters. The poem itself, clearly not included with Pope's permission, is not really a 'character' of Voiture's writings, as the title page states, but this is a Curll publication, so one must expect some economy with the truth. Baines & Rogers point out that at this period Curll seems to have collaborated with a number of other booksellers: in this instance they even published a joint catalogue of their publications as part of the prelims. See Baines & Rogers, Edmund Curll, bookseller, pp. 65, 73 and 204; not listed by Straus, Unspeakable Curll; not in Griffith, Bibliography of Pope. Provenance. Contemporary signature in both volumes of Ann Dorrien, and small early armorial bookplate, also in each volume, which incorporates the Dorrien arms the books probably descended in the Smith-Dorrien family, a prominent and wealthy family who lived at Berkhamsted.

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• Titre: THE WORKS OF THE CELEBRATED MONSIEUR VOITURE. Containing, I. His letters, and characters of the most eminent personages in the court of France. Illustrated with explanatory notes by Mons. Richelet. II. His Metamorphoses. III. Alcidalis and Zelida; or, the Undaunted Lady. A Romance. Compos'd for the entertainment of Mademoiselle de Rambouillet. Done from the Paris edition, by Mr. Ozell. To which is prefix'd, the Author's life. And a chararacter of his writings, by Mr. Pope.
• Éditeur: London: printed for A. Bettesworth at the Red Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row E. Curll at the Dial and Bible and J. Pemberton at the Buck and Sun both against St. Dunstan's church in Fleet-Street Price of the two volumes 6s
• Date de parution: 1715
• Édition: Edition originale
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