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PEIGNOT, Gabriel (1767-1849). Lettres inédites au Docteur Bourée, bibliothécaire de la ville de Châtillon-sur-Seine. Dijon: Darantiére, 1885.
4o (195 x 120 mm). PRINTED ON VéLIN, the only copy. Title in red and black. Contemporary brown morocco gilt, signed by LORTIC FRèRES, crowned arms in center of sides, monogram in compartments of spine, roll-tooled borders on turn-ins, gilt edges, original printed wrappers preserved. Cloth box. Provenance: Edmond Borthon (fl. 1880s-1890s, Dijon; collector of French old-master paintings, see Catalogue des tableaux et objets d'art de la collection E. Borthon 1890), printed ad personam: "exemplaire spécial imprimé sur vélin pour la bibliothèque de M. Borthon" -- Unidentified owner (bound for him by Lortic, with coat-of-arms and monograms) -- Claude Guérin (private collection, Drouot sale, 7 December 1990, lot 168).
Following Peignot's bibliographical letters to Dr. Bourée. the editor (Borthon?) included a letter to the same correspondent by Nicolas Amanton under the anagram, A.-C. Salocin, written in Burgundian dialect. The edition was divided into seven issues on various papers: 100 copies on Hollande, 6 on Japon, 6 on Chine, 6 on Whatman, 6 on Violet de Renage, 2 on Parchemin [i.e. parchment or vellum], 1 on vélin. The Borthon copy is the exemplaire de tête, THE UNIQUE COPY ON VéLIN, which in this case is to be interpreted as "papier vélin," a wove paper highly polished and sized to imitate vellum; so successfully in fact as to take in Claude Guérin, who catalogued it for his sale as "peau de vélin", when it was bought by Clavreuil for Dr. Breslauer, who shelved it among his vellum books and had a box made labelled "printed on vellum".
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Following Peignot's bibliographical letters to Dr. Bourée. the editor (Borthon?) included a letter to the same correspondent by Nicolas Amanton under the anagram, A.-C. Salocin, written in Burgundian dialect. The edition was divided into seven issues on various papers: 100 copies on Hollande, 6 on Japon, 6 on Chine, 6 on Whatman, 6 on Violet de Renage, 2 on Parchemin [i.e. parchment or vellum], 1 on vélin. The Borthon copy is the exemplaire de tête, THE UNIQUE COPY ON VéLIN, which in this case is to be interpreted as "papier vélin," a wove paper highly polished and sized to imitate vellum; so successfully in fact as to take in Claude Guérin, who catalogued it for his sale as "peau de vélin", when it was bought by Clavreuil for Dr. Breslauer, who shelved it among his vellum books and had a box made labelled "printed on vellum".