Guillaume de LORRIS and Jean de MEUN dit Clopinel. - Lot 174

Guillaume de LORRIS and Jean de MEUN dit Clopinel. Le Roman de la Rose. Revu sur plusieurs éditions et sur quelques anciens manuscrits. Accompanied by several other works, a historical preface, notes and a glossary. [Edition given by LENGLET-DUFRESNOY]. (and) Supplément au Glossaire du Roman de la Rose... [by J.-B. Lantin de Damerey]. A Amsterdam, chez Jean-Frédéric Bernard, 1735, et à Dijon, chez Sirot, 1737, 4 volumes in-12 bound in full calf, ornate ribbed spines, title and chapter headpieces, some spinebands and headpieces rubbed. Rare edition, complete here with the Supplement "containing critical, historical and grammatical notes, a dissertation on the authors of this novel, the Analysis of this poem, a discourse on the usefulness of glossaries, the variants restored from a manuscript by M. le président Bouhier de Savigny and a table of the authors cited in this work".