Gros & Delettrez
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[POETRY and VERSES. 18th–19th centuries].
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112
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[POETRY and VERSES. 18th–19th centuries].
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[POETRY and VERSES. 18th–19th centuries].
SET of 8 volumes, all bound.
-VILLON.
The Works of François Villon. Paris: Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, 1723.
In-12, (7)-112-64-56 pp. Old fawn calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title label, gilt title (some scuffing and worn clamps, slight oxidation of the paper).
The first critical edition of the medieval poet’s works and the rarest and most sought-after volume in the Coustelier series. Published in accordance with Clément Marot’s edition, with notes by Eusèbe de Laurière and a letter from Père du Cerceau, it marks the revival of interest in Villon during the 18th century. Tchemerzine, V, 980.
-SOMM, Henry. LE NOBLE, Alexandre.
*La Rapinéide ou l’atelier*, a burlesque, comic and tragic poem in seven cantos by a former artist’s apprentice from the Gros and Girodet studios.
Paris, Barraud, 1870.
In-12. Contemporary caramel-coloured half-shagreen, smooth spine finely decorated (some tarnishing to the binding)
Limited edition. One of 300 on laid paper, no. 25. Illustrated with 7 black etchings, etched vignettes within the text, and wood-engraved headpieces and tailpieces by Henry Somm.
A fine copy.
-DIGUET. *Sonnets amoureux*, 1878.
Large 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, decorated ribbed spine, gilt fillet and fleurons on the covers (one corner of the front cover blackened, foxing). Original vellum cover preserved. Sent by the author. Very generous margins. Foxing
-WINOC JACQUEMIN. Sonnets to Ninon. Flesh-Struggle-Spirit.
Paris, Lemerre, 1867. 12mo. Contemporary havana half-shagreen, decorated ribbed spine, gilt title. Signed by the author. Army ex libris stamp. A lovely, delicate binding.
-[HAMILTON]. *Le Belier*, a tale. 1762.
In-16. Contemporary havana calfskin, smooth spine (some scuffing but interior fresh). Poems at the end.
-BOUFFLERS. Works. Basel, 1807. In-8. Contemporary blue Bradel cardboard binding.
-DULARD. The Greatness of God in the Wonders of Nature, 1750
16mo, speckled calfskin of the period, smooth spine.
-The Idylls of Bion and Moschus [followed by] Idylls.
(Privilege dated 1686; probably a slightly later second edition). Small 12mo, 256 pp and 155 pp., titles in red. Contemporary tan calfskin, decorated ribbed spine.
From pp. 207: Greek text with French translation. Contains the *Oaristys*. Idyll. Verses followed by a Note on the *Oaristys*, text in Greek and French
Bion of Smyrna and Moschus of Syracuse were Greek poets of the 1st–2nd centuries BC, of whom few works are known. Translated by Hilaire-Bernard de Longepierre in 1686, in Paris. A prized title of ancient Greek poetry.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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