ID 991016
Lot 31 | MONTESQUIEU, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (1689-1755)
Estimate value
€ 2 000 – 3 000
Lettres persanes. Amsterdam : Jacques Desbordes, 1730.
"Troisième édition" des Lettres Persanes - en fait une réimpression de la deuxième édition.
Exemplaire en maroquin de l'époque.
L'édition originale des Lettres persanes est donnée en mai 1721 à Amsterdam par Susanne de Caux, veuve de l'imprimeur protestant Henri Desbordes. Elle est rapidement suivie d'une deuxième édition, donnée à l'automne de la même année, par la même imprimeuse. Cette deuxième édition, que les bibliographes qualifient d'édition B, se distingue de la première (édition A) par le nombre plus faible de lettres qu'elle contient (140 contre les 150 de l'originale), mais aussi par le fait qu'elle ajoute trois lettres qui étaient absentes de la précédente, et qui seront reprises dans toutes les éditions suivantes. Ces deux éditions, A et B, paraissent sous l'adresse de convention "à Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau", stratagème éditorial bien connu pour se prémunir de la censure et de l'interdiction de parution dont l'ouvrage, "réprouvé absolument", fut immédiatement victime.
Le fils de Susanne de Caux, veuve Desbordes, Jacques Desbordes, fait paraître, en 1730, la présente réimpression de l'édition B - d'où la mention de "troisième édition", sur la page de titre.
Volpilhac-Auger, Catherine. Montesquieu : une histoire de temps. Lyon : ENS Éditions, 2017, en particulier chap. 2, "Les Lettres persanes : une histoire de suicide et de twist".
2 vol. in-12 (131 x 72 mm), de 312 et 347 pp. Pages de titre imprimées en rouge et noir (quelques rousseurs). Reliures jansénistes de l'époque : maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs, lettre dorée, filet doré sur les coupes, gardes de papier marbré, tranches dorées sur marbrures (restaurations discrètes aux coiffes et charnières).
Third edition of Montesquieu's Persian letters, actually a reprint of the second 1721 edition, issued in 1730. The copy is in contemporary red morocco binding.
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