[Justus Van Effen] Le Misantrope, par Mr. V.E.**, nouvelle é - Lot 246

[Justus Van Effen] Le Misantrope, par Mr. V.E.**, nouvelle édition revue & augmentée de plusieurs discours importans, La Haye, Chez Jean Neaulme, 1726, 2 vols, in-12, de XVI-459pp.-6ff., 496pp.-6ff. plein veau moucheté époque, dos ornés, pièces de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges, rousseurs, bien relié. Second edition after that of 1711-12. The author gives moral observations in a satirical tone in the manner of Steele and Addison's Tatler and Spectator. It was during his preceptorship with the Wassenaer Van Duivenvoorde family in The Hague that Van Effen, an ambitious young man, made a name for himself with his weekly Le Misanthrope. The first continental imitation of Steele and Addison's Spectator and Tatler. (Sgard-958)