Lot 12
12
[DES LAURIERS, known as BRUSCAMBILLE] Prologues tant sérieux que facétieux avec plusieurs galimatias par le sieur D. L., [Paris]: Jean Millot, [n.d.] [privilege leaf dated 1610], 12°, FIRST EDITION, A2, B-L12, M2 + privilege leaf, A1= engraved title (text affected by worming which looks ugly from L1 onwards though loss is fairly slight), 18th-century blue morocco gilt with coronet surmounting a lozenge-shaped centre piece built up from volutes and other small tools including suns, stars and a pair of crowned lions, spine in gilt panels, lettered on a red morocco label (upper joints cracked), marbled endpapers, g.e., ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.
[DES LAURIERS, known as BRUSCAMBILLE] Prologues tant sérieux que facétieux avec plusieurs galimatias par le sieur D. L., [Paris]: Jean Millot, [n.d.] [privilege leaf dated 1610], 12°, FIRST EDITION, A2, B-L12, M2 + privilege leaf, A1= engraved title (text affected by worming which looks ugly from L1 onwards though loss is fairly slight), 18th-century blue morocco gilt with coronet surmounting a lozenge-shaped centre piece built up from volutes and other small tools including suns, stars and a pair of crowned lions, spine in gilt panels, lettered on a red morocco label (upper joints cracked), marbled endpapers, g.e., ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

Details
[DES LAURIERS, known as BRUSCAMBILLE] Prologues tant sérieux que facétieux avec plusieurs galimatias par le sieur D. L., [Paris]: Jean Millot, [n.d.] [privilege leaf dated 1610], 12°, FIRST EDITION, A2, B-L12, M2 + privilege leaf, A1= engraved title (text affected by worming which looks ugly from L1 onwards though loss is fairly slight), 18th-century blue morocco gilt with coronet surmounting a lozenge-shaped centre piece built up from volutes and other small tools including suns, stars and a pair of crowned lions, spine in gilt panels, lettered on a red morocco label (upper joints cracked), marbled endpapers, g.e., ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

Lot Essay

Des Lauriers, nicknamed Bruscambille, was "a 17th-century actor famous for the prologues which, as was customary at the time, he used to deliver at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, before the performance of a play, to induce patience in the audience while the house was filling. The prologues were burlesque satires, imitated from the Italian, describing characters and types and treating of all sorts of subjects (poltroonery, the gout, fleas, cabbage, &c.). They were very popular and were printed 1610" (Harvey & Heseltine).

More from PRINTED BOOKS

View All
View All