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[BAILLET DE SAINT JULIEN (L.-G.)].
See original version (French)
73
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[BAILLET DE SAINT JULIEN (L.-G.)].
See original version (French)
Estimate 180 € - 200 €
Voluntary lot
Description
[BAILLET DE SAINT JULIEN (L.-G.)].
COLLECTION of texts and verses. Various texts including his poem on Painting in its original edition and small curiosas.
Small in-8. Contemporary lightly marbled fawn calf, smooth spine decorated, red edges.
The genesis of art criticism in eighteenth-century France. Guillaume Baillet de Saint-
Julien (1726-1795), author of several "salons" and of the first French poem on painting, was a critic and collector, a lover of drawing, engraving and French galant painting. A friend of Saint-Aubin, he built up a library specialising in painting. Driven mad, he died forgotten by everyone, including art historians.
-Collection of poems by various authors, 1759, including Baillet.
-Satires nouvelles et autres pièces de littérature. London, 1754. 42 pp. First edition of this collection.
-Fugitive pieces of literature. Critical, philological and moral thoughts. London, 1754. First edition of this collection, including the EO of his poem on painting.
-The very rare Supplément... à ses oeuvres. Venice (fictitious address), 1759. Libertine verse with an engraved vignette with a "free figure" (coitus). No record in the CCFr.
Absent from Gay-Lemonnier.
Old annotations of the period or early nineteenth pen, titles and title MS at the beginning.
See original version (French)
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