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Pastoral romances

FLORIAN, Jean Pierre Claris de.
Oeuvres de M. de Florian. Title of part 1: Galatée, roman pastoral; imité de Cervantes. Quatrieme édition. Title to part 2: Estelle, roman pastoral.

Part 1: Full-page frontispiece, portrait of Cervantes and four plates outside text, all engraved by J.B. Guyard. Part 2: Full-page engraved frontispiece outside text.

Part 1: Full-page frontispiece, portrait of Cervantes and four plates outside text, all engraved by J.B. Guyard. Part 2: Full-page engraved frontispiece outside text.

Part 1: Full-page frontispiece, portrait of Cervantes and four plates outside text, all engraved by J.B. Guyard. Part 2: Full-page engraved frontispiece outside text.

Part 1: Full-page frontispiece, portrait of Cervantes and four plates outside text, all engraved by J.B. Guyard. Part 2: Full-page engraved frontispiece outside text.



(Paris?, ca. 1790). Part 1: Paris, Didot l'Aine, 1785. Part 2: 'Au buis', 1790. 2 parts 1 vol. Sm. 8vo. 19th-century full polished calf, spine gilt with title lettered in gold on red morocco label, decorated gilt borders on sides, marbled endpapers. Part 1: Full-page frontispiece, portrait of Cervantes and four plates outside text, all engraved by J.B. Guyard. Part 2: Full-page engraved frontispiece outside text. 198; 36, 228 pp.

Two pastorals, Galatee and Estelle, by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794), a French poet and romance writer.
Florian's first literary efforts were comedies; his verse epistle Voltaire et le serf du Mont Jura and an eclogue Ruth were crowned by the French Academy in 1782 and 1784 respectively. In 1782 also he produced a one-act prose comedy, Le Bon Ménage, and in the next year Galatee, a romantic tale in imitation of the Galatea of Cervantes. Other short tales and comedies followed, and in 1786 appeared Numa Pompilius, an undisguised imitation of Fénelon's Telémaque. Florian´s uncle and guardian, the Marquis of Florian, who had married a niece of Voltaire, introduced him at Ferney and in 1768 he became page at Anet in the household of the Duc de Penthièvre, who remained his friend throughout his life. In 1788 he became a member of the French Academy, and published Estelle, a pastoral of the same class as Galatee.

Good copy with wide margins (Pasted bookplate of M. Huvier from Coulommiers on inside of front cover and recto of half-title to part 2; some staining esp. towards end).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  French  Poetry 

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