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BERANGER. The Complete Works of P. J. de Béranger. A new edi…
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118
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BERANGER. The Complete Works of P. J. de Béranger. A new edi…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
BERANGER.
The Complete Works of P. J. de Béranger. A new edition revised by the author.
[With] Posthumous Works by Béranger, *My Biography* written by Béranger, with an appendix and two notes. [And] Béranger’s Latest Songs from 1834 to 1851.
[And] Music for Béranger’s Songs: Notated Melodies, Both Old and Modern. Ninth edition revised by Frédéric Bérat.
Paris, Perrotin, 1847, 1860 [and] 1865.
5 volumes, in-8. Contemporary blue half-maroquin with period corners, raised ribbed spine, gilt title and volume numbers, richly decorated panels, gilt fillet on the covers, gilt head, original endpapers preserved [Mercier Sx. de Cuzin] (a few scattered foxing spots).
Description:
A fine copy with wide margins in an elegant binding by Mercier.
Volumes I and II illustrated with 52 previously unpublished steel engravings, based on drawings by Charlet, Lemud, Johannot, Daubigny, Pauquet, Jacques, Lange, Pinguilly, de Rudder and Raffet. Includes 2 facsimile pages from a manuscript.
The biography is illustrated with a full-length portrait engraved after Charlet, and 8 engravings by Durond, Massart, Lalaisse, Nargeot and Ruhierre, after d’Aubigny, Sandoz and Wattier. It also includes a photograph based on the marble bust by Geoffroy-Dechaume.
Béranger’s *Les Dernières chansons* are illustrated with 14 drawings by Lemud, engraved on steel by Balin, Brunet, Colin, Darodes, Doherty, Massart, Moret, Nargeot and others.
*Music for Béranger’s Songs: Ancient and Modern Noted Melodies* is supplemented with the music for the posthumous songs, set to melodies composed by Béranger, Halévy, Gounod and Laurent de Rillé.
The plates in Volume I, Volume II, the biography and *Les Dernières chansons de Béranger* are accompanied by a black-and-white suite.
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