"Scarron (paul) - Works Of Scarron. New Edition. 1786, 19th Century Binding."
SCARRON (Paul) - Works of Scarron. New edition, more correct than all the previous ones. Paris, Chez Jean-François Bastien, 1786; in-8, frontispiece, XIV-316 + IV-352 + XII-451 + XVI-493 + IV-464 + IV-607 + X-396 pp., 19th century bindings, bottle green half-calf, smooth decorated spines, marbled slices. The 7 volumes. Paul Scarron, born in 1610 in Paris and died in the same city in 1660. He was a nobleman and suffered from an illness that made him suffer profusely. He used a lot of opium. He is and remains known as the representative of the burlesque genre. His best-known novel is the Roman comique. He adapted a lot of plays by Spanish novelists. Here in 7 volumes the complete works of Scarron in an elegant binding of the 19th century.