{"title":"Charles Eisen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"le-decameron","title":"Le Décameron.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBOCCACE, Giovanni. Le Décameron.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLondres (Paris), S.e.,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e1757-1761.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn-8 (213 x 142 mm), 5 volumes : T1 - 320 pp ; T2 - [3] ff, 292 pp, [1] f. ; T3 - [3] ff, 203 pp, [3] ff ; T4 - [3] ff, 280 pp, [1] f. ; T5 - [3] ff, 269 pp, [2] ff. 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A very fine, wide-margined copy, Volume 2 of which contains the first-edition engravings - visible from the characteristic initials on the verso of the engravings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis was undoubtedly \u003cstrong\u003eGravelot's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003efirst real masterpiece, and the Goncourt brothers praised his work:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eA charming fantasy in which the pencil and imagination of the draughtsman, playing this time in the past which was only the past of the tales, dresses the Pampinées in the taste of the rue Saint-Honoré, transports on the architectural background of Saint-Sulpice the appointments of Santa Maria Novella, the horizon of Florence on a ground of the Grand-Trianon and thus makes a French translation where Boccaccio is arranged in the fashion of the ideal that the France of Louis XV makes of him\u003c\/em\u003e’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScattered foxing and a few slightly browned leaves, some wear to the bindings, restorations to the lower cover and to the spine of volume 1.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCohen, 160 ; Goncourt, L'art du XVIIIe siècle, édition définitive. 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Contes de Boccace ; Traduction nouvelle, augmentée de divers Contes et Nouvelles en vers imités de ce Poëte célèbre, par La Fontaine, Passerat, Vergier, Perrault, Dorat et autres; et enrichie de Notes historiques sur les principaux personnages que Bocace a mis sur la scène, et sur les usages observés dans le siècle où il vivoit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis, Poncelin,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/span\u003e1801.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn-12 (140 x 93 mm), 11 volumes: T1 - [3] ff, XX-276 pp, [1] f; T2 - [3] ff, 223 pp, [1] f; T3 - [3] ff, 247 pp, [1] f; T4 - [3] ff, 582 pp, [2] f; T5 - [3] ff, 267 pp, [1] f; T6 - [3] ff, 269 pp, [1] f; T7 - [3] ff, 202 pp, [2] f, 1] f. ; T6 - [3] ff, 269 pp, [1] f. ; T7 - [3] ff, 202 pp, [2] ff ; T8 - [3] ff, 257 pp, [1] f, [1] f. ; T9 - [3] ff, 323 pp, [1] f. ; T10 - [3] ff, XXVII-250 pp, [2] ff ; T11 - [3] ff, 414 pp, [1] f. Half blond calf, spine gilt ribbed, decorated with a double gilt fillet on the upper and lower parts, olive title page, red endpaper (\u003cem\u003elate 19th century binding\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCharming illustrated edition based on \u003cstrong\u003eillustrations by Gravelot, Cochin, Eisen and Boucher, with a total of 10 frontispieces and 99 plates engraved hors-texte\u003c\/strong\u003e, of which no. 7 is missing as it was not added to this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnnotations in pencil in the volumes, small epidermis on the second cover of volume 3, small paper loss on the lower corner of page 1 of volume 7.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCohen, \u003cem\u003eGuide l'Amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle\u003c\/em\u003e, 162.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53755711816005,"sku":"0277","price":400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/12-image00012_4b044ac9-a3e0-48e7-a714-7a24ffe8984d.jpg?v=1733125118"},{"product_id":"les-baisers-precedes-du-mois-de-mai-suivi-de-imitations-de-plusieurs-poetes-latins","title":"Les Baisers précédés du Mois de Mai [followed by Imitations de plusieurs poétes latins]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDORAT, Jean. 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