Poésies . . édition nouvelle, augmentée d'un tiers. Amsterdam. Henri Wetstein,
DESHOULIERES, (Antoinette Ligier de la Garde)
Ornamental woodcut device on title-page.
8vo. [2]ff. (first blank) 228pp. [6]ff. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments. 1694
Very early edition of the poems of Madame de la Deshoulières, several of which were not in the edition originale of 1688 and appear here for the first time. This edition appeared a year before the appearance of the second part of the 1688 edition. The husband of the poet was an adherent of Condé and was involved in the political troubles of the time, and she joined him in the Spanish Netherlands. She was ultimately ruined and for the last twelve years of her life suffered from cancer. Her best poetry was inspired by these misfortunes and the approach of death. She played an important role in Parisian literary society and received in her salon Corneille, Ménage, Conrart, Benserade, Fléchier, Mascaron, Quinault, etc. She was also the centre of the clique that attacked Racine's Phèdre.Voltaire admired her works and Sainte-Beuve believed her reputation to be less than her merit.
Bound with the cancelland and cancellans of B1, the former omitting one line of text.
In excellent condition.
Tchemerzine IV, p.317, c. Lachèvre Les derniers libertins(1924), p.115. Rochebilière p.258.
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