{"product_id":"les-exiles-tome-viii-of-the-works-of-madame-de-villedieu-1741","title":"Les Exiles, Tome VIII of the Works of Madame de Villedieu, Paris 1741","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume eight of the 1741 collected works of Madame de Villedieu, holding her novel Les Exiles complete in one volume. Marie-Catherine Desjardins wrote and published under her own name in the 1660s and 1670s, when almost no Frenchwoman did, and was still in print sixty years after she died.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLes Exiles opens with the poet Ovid, banished from the court of Augustus, walking a foreign shore, and goes on from there in the manner of the seventeenth-century French novel: exiles, confidences, stories inside stories. The 1741 Oeuvres were a syndicate printing by the Compagnie des Libraires in Paris, and this volume is one of a set. Read alone it is a whole book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOeuvres de Madame de Ville-Dieu, Tome VIII, contenant Les Exiles. A Paris, par la Compagnie des Libraires, M.DCC.XLI, avec privilege du Roy. Woodcut device on the title, headpiece and ornamental initial at the opening of the novel. Duodecimo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe copy\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with rosette tools and lettered direct, OEUVRES DE VILDIEU and TOM VIII. Headcap chipped with small loss, joints and edges rubbed, boards holding well. Foxing spots to the title and first leaves, text otherwise clean. No ownership marks found. Condition graded Sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, with its annotation card: accession number, era, date, materials, condition, confidence level and wall text. Ships boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"In Memoriam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52875599708472,"sku":"IM-0053","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1012\/5715\/0776\/files\/IM-0053-02-title.jpg?v=1789377287","url":"https:\/\/inmemoriamantiques.com\/products\/les-exiles-tome-viii-of-the-works-of-madame-de-villedieu-1741","provider":"In Memoriam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}