Description: Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. Suivent Les Cent Nouvelles, Contenant les Cent Histoires Nouveaux, qui sont moult plaisans a ranconter, en toutes bonnes Compagnies; par manière de joyeuseté. Nouvelle edition, ornee de cent figures en taille-douce & d'un frontispice. Tome Quatrième. Chez Pierre Gaillard, Cologne, 1786, 157pp, 3/4 leather, 4.5 x 7", 18mo Fair condition. Wear to front and rear boards. Edges are scuffed. Some bumping to tips. Spine shows some scuffing but title compartment and gilt are intact. Fore edges in gilt. Marbling to boards and front and rear pastedowns and flyleafs. Bookplate on front pastedown for previous owner (Ex Libri Otis Munro Bigelow Jr). Front and rear hinges are cracked. Rear flyleaf detached from binding. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Some imprinting to pages opposite illustrations. Each story has its own unique illustration. Binding is fragile. Please see photos. The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles ("One Hundred New Novellas") is a collection of stories supposed to be narrated by various person at the court of Philippe le Bon, and collected together by Antoine de la Sale in the mid-15th century. The nouvelles are, according to George Saintsbury, "undoubtedly the first work of literary prose in French ... The short prose tale of a comic character is the one French literary product the pre-eminence and perfection of which it is impossible to dispute, and the prose tale first appears to advantage in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles." FORN-MSB-0224-TUB0003-JC113
Price: 75 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: 3/4 leather
Language: French
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Publisher: Pierre Gaillard
Topic: Literature
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
