Odes M. de la Motte de l'Academie Francoise. Chez Gregoire Dupuis : Paris 1713 2 vols. Ful leather. Some splitting of the leather towards head and foot and outer hinge. Stain on title page. Light water stains on top fore edges Octavo 324, 333 pp plus Table of Odes
"Discours sur la poésie en général, & sur l'ode en particulier"
"Antoine Houdar de la Motte was a French author. He was elected to the Académie française in 1710. He was a champion of the moderns in the revived controversy of the ancients and moderns. His Fables nouvelles (1719) was regarded as a modernist manifesto. His tragedy, Inès de Castro (1723), was an immense success at the Theâtre Français." GoodReads