Title
Nouvelle methode pour apprendre facilement la langue latine: contenant les regles des genres, des declinaisons, des préterits, de la syntaxe, de la quantité, & des accens latins mises en françois avec un ordre trés-clair & trés-abregé ... ; avec un traité de la poësie latine, & une bréve instruction sur les regles de la poësie françois.
Note
By Lancelot, Nicole and Arnauld; cf. Barbier, A.A. Ouvrage anonymes.
IMPRINT:
A Paris : Chez Denys Mariette ..., 1696.
FORMAT:
815, [9] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
CONDITION:
Leather binding over laminated boards, probably a 19th century rebinding. Embossing on the leather of the spine and the foredge. Marbled page edges.
Signatures L, 2E, and 2Q are darker due most likely to more highly acidic paper.
PROVENANCE:
Bookplate reads “From the library of Harry R. Secor, Professor of French and Director of the CRRS”
COLLATION:
4o: π2 (flyleaf + pastedown), A-3E8 ($4 +L1), F4 ($3), χ2 (flyleaf + paste down)
Signatures printed with roman numerals (e.g., A, Aij, Aiij, Aiiij)
CONTENT:
A1r - Title
A2r – Preface (French)
A8r – Ex Libro Primo Epistolarum Philologicarum Rolandi Maresii Epistola XVI (Latin)
B1r – Avis Au Lecteur, touchant les Regles de cette Nouvelle Methode
B4v – Copyright information. Right to reprint restricted to certain printers, privilege given by the king. Right had been ceded by another publisher (Ranchin)
Z2r - La Syntaxe
2E3r - Discours
3E8v – Table of contents