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97 - CLARETIE (Jules). The Flag. Illustrated edition.
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CLARETIE (Jules). The Flag. Illustrated edition... Paris, Georges Decaux, Maurice Dreyfous, 1879, quarto, 2 leaves – 106 pp. – 1 leaf – 5 plates, vignettes in headbands and footers. Contemporary red half-shagreen binding, corner pieces, ribbed spine, compartments with gilt fillets and gilt fleurons, gilt head. - A fine copy, well bound. Very slight scuffing to the binding. (Vicaire II, col. 413). - CAYLA (J.-M.) - PAUL (Cléobule). Monumental and Picturesque Toulouse. Toulouse, Laguarrigue, (1842), 4to, VII–254 pp. (of 256) – 37 lithographed plates (of 61). Contemporary beige half-basane binding, smooth spine, gilt fillets and fleurons. – Incomplete copy, missing 24 plates as well as the final folios (255–256), based on the copy held in the University of Toulouse Library. Binding scuffed, hinges split, corners worn, interior fresh (one quire misplaced). – BLANC DIT LA GOUTTE. Poems in the Dauphiné dialect. Grenoblo malhérou… illustrations by D. Rahoult… preface by Georges Sand. Grenoble, Rahoult & Dardelet, 1864, in-4, IX-1f.-135pp.-(2ff.-IX-78pp. for the appended play). Fawn half-chagrin, smooth spine decorated with a longitudinal foliage design, gilt head. (Early 20th-century binding). – A few small foxing spots, a stain and restoration on the last two leaves. First edition, printed on heavy paper. G. Sand’s preface runs to 5 pages. This text was first published in Grenoble in 1733. Its author was a grocer from Grenoble who was ‘disabled and afflicted by gout to an extreme degree, though only 46 years of age’. ‘Grenoblo malhérou’ is an account of the great flood of 1733. (Carteret III, 95 – Vicaire I, 812). - This text is followed by 78 pages (IX–78) with its own title: “Poems in the Dauphiné dialect… with a preface and glossary by Michal-Ladichère”. Grenoble, Rahoult, 1874. This is an annotated copy of the letter in verse written by Blanc to a friend concerning the flood of 20 December 1740. (Vicaire I, 813).
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