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CHASTELET DE BEAUCHASTEAU, FRANÇOIS-MATHIEU. La Lyre du Jeune Apollon, ou La Muse Naissante. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and 25 (of 26) portraits; lacks portrait 21 (Madame Royalle). [88], [2], 10, [2], 11-13 [i. e., 14], [2], 13-18, [2], 14, [9], 19-262; [8], 2, [2], 3-4 [i. e., 6], [2], 5-12 [i. e., 14], [4], 13-16, [4], 17-127, [3] pages; apparently lacking 5 unnumbered leaves of verse. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, cover edges worn; some text leaves browned, most portraits clean, ink blots on final privilege leaf, endpapers covered with early ink scrawls. Paris: (Nicolas Foucault for) Charles de Sercy & Guillaume de Luynes, 1657
first edition of a collection of poems to various contemporary monarchs and notables by a child prodigy, who was 12 when the book was published. Rothschild 833 calls for 10 unnumbered inserted leaves of verse in the first part and 8 in the second; this copy has 7 and 6, respectively.
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