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PEIGNOT, Étienne-Gabriel (1767-1849). Manuel bibliographique, ou essai sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes, et sur la connaissance des livres, des formats, des éditions; sur la manière de composer une bibliothèque choisie, classée méthodiquement, et sur les principaux ouvrages à consulter dans chaque partie de l'enseignement des Ecoles centrales: le tout suivi de plusiers notices bibliographiques, instructives et curieuses. Paris: 1800.
8o (220 x 145 mm). (Some very minor occasional spotting.) Later plain blue wrappers, uncut and unopened.
FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies of this abridgement to a projected Manuel du bibliothécaire (see pp. vii-viii). Bigmore and Wyman discuss Peignot's unrelenting bibliographic activity: "His secret was that from the hour he began to read he began to write: left hand never held a book that right hand had not a pen. Every leisure moment he gave to book and pen; he noted everything he read or heard in commonplace books under proper heads" (Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 151, not listing this title).
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FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies of this abridgement to a projected Manuel du bibliothécaire (see pp. vii-viii). Bigmore and Wyman discuss Peignot's unrelenting bibliographic activity: "His secret was that from the hour he began to read he began to write: left hand never held a book that right hand had not a pen. Every leisure moment he gave to book and pen; he noted everything he read or heard in commonplace books under proper heads" (Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 151, not listing this title).