Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset — Oeuvres de M. Gresset

London, Chez Edouard Kelmarneck, 1765. Leather. An nice early collection of French poetry from Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. In the original French. Complete in two volumes. New edition. A collection of the influential poems by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. Featuring decorative head and tail pieces. Containing Gresset's best known narrative poem Vert-Vert, a poem which stands absolutely unrivalled, even among French contes en vers. In mottled calf bindings with gilt designs to the spines. Externally, generally smart. A trifle rubbed to the spines and extremities. Spine label is absent from volume one, and there is loss to volume two's. There is shelfwear to the head and tail of spines. Both joints to volume two are starting. Front hinge to volume one is slightly strained but firm. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of both volumes. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .