Boieldieu, (Marie Jacques Amand)

Discours sur la Mélancolie

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[Rouen: de l'Imprimerie de P. Periaux] Se Trouve a Paris: chez la veuve Dufresne; Rouen: chez Mégard 1808 First Edition Prononcé, le 19 Aout 1807, a la Séance publique de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen; Suivi d'un Dialogue Apologétique, en vers, sur la Religion et la Politique de Charlemagne, lu, dans une Séance particulière de la même Académie, le 16 Mars 1808: Par Marie-Jacques-Amand Boieldieu, Avocat, Membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. Dédié à Madame De Rollin. 8vo. [203 x 126 x 12 mm]. [3]ff, 61pp. Bound in contemporary green goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a border composed of a dog-tooth and line roll and repeated impressions of fleurons etc, a centrepiece of a star-burst, fleurons etc and lettered towards the head of the front cover "Mr. De Rollin". Smooth spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the first, fourth and sixth tooled to a lattice pattern and the third and fifth with a flower, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Three small worm-holes in the joints). Not quite the dedication copy, but handsomely bound for the dedicatee's husband. It is in fine condition. This is a scarce work (with only one copy located, at Rouen), containing an essay on melancholy, first read before the Rouen Academy of Science, Belles-Lettres and Arts. The second part contains an imaginary dialogue, in verse, between Charlemagne, the Saxon king, Witikin and his advisor, Alcuin, Archbishop of York. This is preceded by a four page introduction setting the historical scene for the dialogue, which has to do with Witikin's conversion to Christianity. The only other works we have managed to trace by Boieldieu are "De l'influence de la chaire, du théâtre et du barreau, dans la société civile", Paris 1804 and "La mission à Paris ou les nouveaux triomphes de la religion catholique", Paris 1822.

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