Evariste de Parny — Porte-Feuille Vole

Paris, Au Magazin de Librairie, 1805. First edition. Leather. A presumed first edition of 'The Stolen Wallet', a collection of three of Parny's poems. A first edition.Evariste de Parny was a French poet, well known in the nineteenth century for his lyric poems, especially the Posies Erotiques (1778-81), and the prose-poems in Chansons Madcasses (1787). He also wrote much humorous verse, including the anti-religious La Guerre des Dieux (1799) and Le Paradis perdu (1805). The latter is a parody of Milton's Paradise Lost in four relatively short cantos.This work contains 'Le Paradis perdu' (Paradise Lost), a poem in four songs; 'Les Desguisements de Venus' (The Disguises of Venus), and 'Les Galanteries de la Bible' (The Gallantries of the Bible)&apos. A smart collection of French verse. In a decorative full calf binding with marbled boards. Externally, sound with slight rubbing. Internally, firmly bound. Generally clean with just some light scattered foxing.There is a copperplate ink signature to the title page and ink mark to the front free endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .