GRIFFET (Henri) - Lot 487

GRIFFET (Henri) Histoire du règne de Louis XIII, roi de France et de Navarre. Paris, Libraires associés, 1758. 3 volumes in-4: 2f, 691pp / 2f, 820pp (inversion of leaves 819-820 and 817-818) / 2f, 770pp, 1f. Paper loss at the foot of 2 leaves, without text damage. Numerous notes in red pencil in the wide margins. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed, rubbed and sunned, red title-piece, black end-papers, tarnished head-pieces, spine ends split, double gilt fillet on edges, small leather tears on edges, corners dull, other minor defects. First edition of this unusual work by Henri Griffet, a French Jesuit, literary scholar and historian. He replaced Father Forée in the Belles-lettres chair at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, then became confessor at the Bastille, and later obtained the title of King's preacher. After the suppression of his order in France, he retired to Brussels.