REYRAC, Philippe Laurens de. Hymne au soleil, followed by se - Lot 106

REYRAC, Philippe Laurens de. Hymne au soleil, followed by several pieces of the same genre. Published in London without mention of publisher, in 1790. In-12 format. Long-grained red morocco. Spine decorated with title, place and date of publication in gilt letters. Cold-stamped fillets framing the boards, gilded fillets on the edges, gilded lace on the covers, multicolored, predominantly blue speckled paper endpapers. XXXIV+142+(1) pages, with portrait-frontispiece, headbands, lettering and tailpieces. Covers and corners very slightly rubbed. New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, of this collection of poetry by François-Philippe de Laurens de Reyrac, known as l'abbé de Reyrac, which went through several editions and was translated into several languages. A copy of the great collector Arpad Plesch, whose bookplate appears on the flyleaf, here depicting a sun in a frame of double gilt fillet on a piece of red leather. A remarkable copy, with beautifully decorated linings and endpapers.