French Miscellanies

[Leith Davis]

Dear list members:

I've recently come across several comments indicating the importance
of French miscellanies to late 17th-C and early 18th-C English and
Scottish editors and printers.

In a 1693 reprint of A Collection of Poems By Several Hands, for
example, the compiler, Francis Saunders, indicates: "The French have
lately Publish'd Five or Six Volumes of their choicest Poems, by
several Hands." In his Choice Collection of Serious and Comic Scots
Poems (1708) James Watson also notes that: "the frequency of
Publishing Collections of Miscellaneous Poems in our Neighbouring
Kingdoms and States, may, in a great measure, justify an Undertaking
of this kind with us." Through the work of Barbara Benedict (Making
the Modern Reader) and others, I'm familiar with the English
miscellanies published at the time, but I wonder if anyone on the
list with more knowledge of French literature might be able to
identify these French works to which Saunders and possibly Watson
refer?

Many thanks,
Leith

[robert dawson]

this would have to do with the famous barbin
collection in 5 vols, in-12. here's a gleaning (from
the web). check the bnf.fr for further editions /
piracies. it's important for, among other things,
beginning with villon (although barbin wld have done
better beginning with christine de pizan; my opinion).
--bob dawson

p.s. since most of my postings to sharp are refused,
i'll also post to ex-libris

[RECUEIL BARBIN]
Recueil des plus belles Pieces des Poëtes françois,
tant anciens que modernes, depuis Villon jusqu'à M. de
Benserade.
Paris, Claude Barbin, 1692.

Post by Leith Davis
I've recently come across several comments
indicating the importance
of French miscellanies to late 17th-C and early
18th-C English and
Scottish editors and printers.

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