SCARRON (Pierre). The comic novel. With a preface by Paul Bo - Lot 156

SCARRON (Pierre). The comic novel. With a preface by Paul Bourget. Etchings by Léopold Flameng. Paris, Jouaust, 1880. 3 volumes in-16, lemon morocco, cloisonné ribbed spines, caissons decorated with the numeral F, large frame of double gilt fillet and garland on the boards, numeral F surmounted by a helmet pushed to the center of the boards, double gilt fillet on the edges, red heads sown with gilt fleurs-de-lis, frame of double gilt fillet and garland on the inside covers, endpapers lined with hazelnut fleurdelisé paper, printed covers preserved [Hilaire]. New edition of Paul Scarron's masterpiece, a satire of the world of comedy, roaming through 17th-century France. The first two parts were originally published in 1651 and 1657; the last part was unfinished at the author's death in 1660. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait and 9 plates with serpents. Limited edition. A very fine copy in a signed binding by Ch. et L. Hilaire. (Vicaire I, 606-607).