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[DUCLOS, Abbé , & André-Charles CAILLEAU, attributed to]. Dictionnaire bibliographique, historique et critique, des livres rares. Paris: Cailleau et fils, 1790. -- Jacques-Charles BRUNET. Dictionnaire bibliographique...Supplément. Paris: Delalain, & Genova, Fantin, Gravier & C., An X [1802].
Together 4 volumes, 8o (197 x 124 mm). Late nineteenth century marbled boards, probably Austrian, pink and green morocco spine labels (repairs at ends of spines, joints a bit rubbed). Provenance: Angela von Miller zu Aichholz, a well-known Austrian family, of Tyrolese origins, of industrialists and bankers (bookplates).
"THE LEADING RARE BOOK BIBLIOGRAPHY BETWEEN DE BURE AND BRUNET" (Breslauer & Folter 118) to which the twenty-two year old Brunet compiled a supplement, his first published bibliographical work, containing the germ of his "Manuel," published for the first time in 1810. The authorship of the first three volumes is somewhat obscure, and the identity of the principal author shadowy. All that is certain is that he was an abbé, according to Brunet's preface and to Peignot, who added that he died c. 1790. While the General Catalogue of the British Museum bestows on him the initial R., that of the Bibliothèque Nationale does not give him any. He has been repeatedly confounded with Charles Pinot de Duclos, the historiographer who was not an abbé and who died in 1772. The co-authorship of Cailleau, prolific scribbler and publisher, is also problematic. Young Brunet and Peignot mention him on equal terms with the abbé, but Hoefer (under Cailleau) and others maintain that Duclos had supplied the material. Besterman I, 910. (4)
Together 4 volumes, 8
"THE LEADING RARE BOOK BIBLIOGRAPHY BETWEEN DE BURE AND BRUNET" (Breslauer & Folter 118) to which the twenty-two year old Brunet compiled a supplement, his first published bibliographical work, containing the germ of his "Manuel," published for the first time in 1810. The authorship of the first three volumes is somewhat obscure, and the identity of the principal author shadowy. All that is certain is that he was an abbé, according to Brunet's preface and to Peignot, who added that he died c. 1790. While the General Catalogue of the British Museum bestows on him the initial R., that of the Bibliothèque Nationale does not give him any. He has been repeatedly confounded with Charles Pinot de Duclos, the historiographer who was not an abbé and who died in 1772. The co-authorship of Cailleau, prolific scribbler and publisher, is also problematic. Young Brunet and Peignot mention him on equal terms with the abbé, but Hoefer (under Cailleau) and others maintain that Duclos had supplied the material. Besterman I, 910. (4)