[LITERARY SUPERCHERY] - SURVILLE, Clotilde de (1405-1498). - Lot 134

[LITERARY SUPERCHERY] - SURVILLE, Clotilde de (1405-1498). Poésies de Marguerite-Éléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, depuis, Madame de Surville, poëte françois du XVème siècle, publiées par Ch. Vanderbourg. Paris, Henrichs, 1803, in-8, half blond basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt, black title page, straw-colored edges (period binding). These poems are said to have been written by the Marquis Joseph-Etienne de Surville, who was shot at Le Puy in 1798. They are a skilful imitation of the old language (Journal des Savans. 1824). Without frontispiece and plates, otherwise a fine copy. Ex libris Jean-Marie Barez. Quérad, Supercheries, III, 741. AP May be combined with another literary work