<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. cxxiii, 259. Calf. Added title page, engraved; head- and tailpiece. Contains 3 engraved plates of music.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of a controversial, and long-admired Chattertonian forgery of the poetical corpus of Marguerite-Eléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, otherwise Dame Clotilde de Surville, a fifteenth-century forebear of its true author, the Marquis Joseph Étienne de Surville (d. 1798), which continues to inspire claims of partial authenticity. The present work was edited in good faith from the Marquis de Surville’s papers by Charles Vanderbourg. See Bib# 2060052/Fr# 1367 for the elegant ‘nouvelle édition’ of 1824, in original drab wrappers, uncut and Bib# 4103003/Fr# 1368 for the supplementary Poésies inédites of 1827, edited by P.G. Roujoux and Charles Nodier (a believer), in original printed wrappers. See also J.-F. Jeandillou, Supercheries littéraires: la vie et l’oeuvre des auteurs supposés. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; préface de Michel Arrivé. Geneva, 2001, pp., pp. 45-77; Revue critique, 7. année (1873), 8. année (1874).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103001" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>