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[FAMIAN DU ROISOI or DUROSOI]. EISEN.

*Les Sens*, a poem in six cantos.

London, 1766.

Estimate80 - 100
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*Les Sens*, a poem in six cantos.

London, 1766.

8vo. (2) folios, XX-21-184 pp. Hardback in vellum with gilt edges, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt floral panels, morocco-bound title label, gilt title, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt edges (vellum slightly soiled and stretched, quires oxidised).

Quérard II, 730.

With 2 sheets of musical notation (pp. 125 and 173), 6 headpieces, 2 tailpieces and 7 plates, all engraved in black by Joseph de Longueil after Eisen or Wille

First edition in a fine vellum binding from the first half of the 19th century.

A successful lyric poem by the author, a royalist journalist at the start of the Revolution and a man of many talents of his time.