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MARMONTEL, Jean François.
Belisaire.
Paris: Merlin, 1767
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Belisaire.
Paris: Merlin, 1767
8vo, (3) leaves including frontispiece, X-340 pp., (2) leaves, 3 plates. Contemporary fawn porphyry sheepskin, smooth, decorated spine, fawn title label, three gilt fillets on the covers, gilt embossed coat of arms in the centre of the covers, gilt fillet on the edges, marbled edges (slight rubbing to the binding, marginal foxing on a few leaves).
Brunet, vol. III, p. 1440. Cohen, p. 688.
First edition.
Bélisaire, a philosophical novel that sparked fierce controversy, by Jean-François Marmontel, about a Byzantine general under Emperor Justinian, followed by philosophical essays by the author, “Fragments on the Moral Philosophy of Glory”.
A fine copy in its period binding.
The illustrations consist of a frontispiece and three plates after Gravelot, engraved in black on copper by Massard, Le Veau, Levasseur and Masquelier.