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BERQUIN. Idylles. Paris, Ruault, 1775.
See original version (French)
77
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BERQUIN. Idylles. Paris, Ruault, 1775.
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
BERQUIN.
Idylles.
Paris, Ruault, 1775.
2 volumes in-12, title page and frontispiece, VI-53 pp., 12 plates and 70-(1) pp., 12 plates. Contemporary mottled fawn sheepskin, plain spine decorated with a black title label and volume number, three gilt fillets framing the covers, gilt edges (binding rubbed with small areas of leather loss on the covers, very slight foxing in the second volume).
Bibliography:
Cohen, 139.
Description:
First edition of this collection of 24 of Berquin’s poetic dialogues in two volumes.
Illustrated with a frontispiece title page drawn by Marillier and engraved by himself, and 24 plates engraved on copper by Gaucher, de Ghendt, Le Gouaz, Delaunay, Lebeau, Masquelier, Née and Ponce after Marillier.
A copy printed on Holland paper.
See original version (French)
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