CAYLUS, Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubieres de Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, comte de (1692-1765).Biblio.com
Soirées du Bois de Boulogne
1754Best.-Nr. 3693A lovely copy of this scarce novel by the Comte de Caylus first published in 1742. An aristocratic dilettante Caylus was a popular novelist and writer of short stories or contes badines - ranging from fairy tales to sentimental intrigue and oriental fables - which are always witty and usually slightly disreputable. Alongside this reflection of his place in the gayest circles of Paris society Caylus was also a great collector of art and antiquities a scholar and connoisseur painter etcher and patron of contemporary artists. His major work of scholarship Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes étrusques grecques romaines et gauloises is increasingly recognised for its significant importance in the development of modern archaeology. Soirées du Bois de Boulogne is a loosely entwined collection of six short stories or 'soirées' set in an apartment near the Bois de Boulogne where the hero the comte de Trémaillé has been sent to recover his health after an injury sustained at the Battle of Clausen. After happily spending a week there taking the air in the park and content with his books for company early one morning he is surprised to see a carriage arriving at his door with several ladies and a large entourage. Discussing their recent histories and swapping stories of unhappy liaisons his companions who include English visitors as well as French compatriots decide to narrate to one another the stories of their lives. The names have of course as the dedication makes clear been changed. Second Edition. Two volumes 12mo 138 x 68 mm pp. xii 265; iv 280 text fairly browned in part in contemporary red morocco covers with triple filet gilt flat spines ruled in compartments with sunburst tool in each compartment lettered and numbered in gilt marbled endpapers gilt edges gilt dentelles with an unidentified red heraldic booklabel stamped in gilt and the heraldic bookplate of Baron James de Rothschild in each volume. OCLC lists BN BL Leeds Danish Royal Library Augsburg Goettingen Koninklijke Bibliotheek Sainte Genevieve; for the 1742 edition OCLC adds Princeton and Ottawa. Cioranescu 16256; Jones p. 78; Gay III 1123.
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