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SOLEINNE, Martineau de (d.1842) -- Paul LACROIX (1806-1884). Bibliothèque de Monsieur de Soleinne. Paris: Administration de l'Alliance des Arts, 1843-1845, sale 8 January 1844. -- J. GOIZET. Table générale... comprenant une table des noms d'auteurs, une table des ouvrages relatifs au théâtre, et une table des pièces de théâtre. 1845.
Together 9 parts in 6 volumes, 8o (210 x 123 mm; 228 x 140 mm last volume). Near-contemporary French dark-blue half morocco, spines gilt.
A complete set of the Soleinne catalogues, including the essential index by Charles Brunet (see below), published seventy years after the main work. Soleinne spent forty years and considerable sums on creating a library, of which the catalogue by Paul Lacroix, one of the outstanding French bibliographers and literary historians of his time, remains an indespensable reference work, "one of the chief sources for the history of French drama" (Taylor, pp.122-3). Besterman, col.765; Bogeng II, 61; Petzholdt, p. 713.
[With:] BRUNET, Charles. Table des Pièces de Théâtre écrites dans le Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. de Soleinne. Paris: Damascène Morgand for Baron Henri de Rothschild, 1914. 8o. Original wrappers, uncut (front wrapper detached). (7)
Together 9 parts in 6 volumes, 8
A complete set of the Soleinne catalogues, including the essential index by Charles Brunet (see below), published seventy years after the main work. Soleinne spent forty years and considerable sums on creating a library, of which the catalogue by Paul Lacroix, one of the outstanding French bibliographers and literary historians of his time, remains an indespensable reference work, "one of the chief sources for the history of French drama" (Taylor, pp.122-3). Besterman, col.765; Bogeng II, 61; Petzholdt, p. 713.
[With:] BRUNET, Charles. Table des Pièces de Théâtre écrites dans le Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. de Soleinne. Paris: Damascène Morgand for Baron Henri de Rothschild, 1914. 8