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[MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST (Simon-Pierre)].
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99
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[MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST (Simon-Pierre)].
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST (Simon-Pierre)].
*L’Occasion et le moment*, or a collection of casual poems, by an unpretentious amateur, who is not malicious but who believes laughter to be good for one’s health.
At Bonhomiopolis, at L’Ingénu’s, bookseller to the Académie de Quatre, under the sign of the ‘Well-Plucked Harp’, 1782 and for all time.
Four parts in one volume in small in-16 format, (2)-116-148-98-72 pp. 19th-century long-grained navy morocco, ribbed spine, richly decorated panels with perforated backgrounds, covers edged with a cold-stamped scroll and a gilt fillet, four large filigree metal plates with perforated backgrounds, gilded in the spandrels, a central gilded lozenge similarly decorated, the whole framed by small fleurons and cold-stamped dots, gilded roulette with cut-outs and embossed designs, pink satin endpapers and flyleaves [R. P. Thouvenin] (spine slightly faded, minor scuffing on the corners and edges, a few sporadic, discreet foxing spots).
Bibliography:
Gay-Lemonnier, III, 440.
Description:
A collection of gallant and free-spirited pieces, printed in a small run for Mérard de Saint-Just.
Printed on laid paper, with a half-title page and a title page for each section.
Mérard de Saint-Just may have reserved a few copies bearing the Bonhomiopolis address to give to friends, as the address differs from those given in bibliographies.
A very fine little volume printed on Didot’s presses in a morocco binding signed ‘Thouvenin’.
See original version (French)
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