Delpech (Engraver) — Philippe de Commines. (B&W Engraving)

Paris: [19th Century French Publisher], [1800s]. Original B&W gravure. 19 x 12 inches. Very Good. Minor toning along edges, and light wear at bottom edge with quarter-inch rip. Scarce. Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines"; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 - 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time. .