Les animaux parlants, poème héroïco-comique de Casti
CASTI (Giovanni Battista) illustrated by T. de JOLIMONT
Moulins. - Martial Place. - 1847.
- Format : In-8.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Related.
- Collation : Tome 1 : 411 pp.; Tome 2 : 452 pp.
Set of two volumes with brown half-binding. Spine with five ribs with raised fleurons and fillets. Spine with shade-green morocco pieces on which are inscribed in gilt the author's name, title and tomaison. Dishes with fillets in relief framing. Remarkable bindings. All edges speckled. Small freckles and rare traces of dirt on the pages. Black and white frontispieces. Contents decorated with black and white drawings in black and white off-text by T. de JOLIMONT. Work accompanied by their respective bookmarks of multicoloured fabric.
Translation by L.-J. Alary.
French translation of a poem in XXVI songs in which animals, not content to speak, try to organize their own society. Following the example of authors such as La Fontaine, the Italian Casti sought to make the satire of his time, the faults of animals serving to underline human shortcomings. And there was no shortage of shortcomings in the political camps at the beginning of the 19th century.
Very good condition.
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