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J[EAN] G[OSSELIN]
La signification de l'ancien jeu des chartes pythagorique, et la Déclaration de deux doubtes qui se trouvent comptant le jeu de la Paume. Paris: [G. Gorbin], 1582. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (16.2 x 10cm), collation: A-G4 G4v blank; [56]p. Italic and roman letter, woodcut title vignette, headpieces and historiated initials (bottom margins waterstained throughout), 19th-century red morocco, gilt edges (covers waterstained, corners a little bumped). Provenance: Michael Chasles (bookplate).
Second printing of Gosselin's Declaration des deux doubtes which occupies the last 13 pages. First printed separately in 1579, this was THE FIRST FRENCH BOOK ON TENNIS and concerned the important subject of why tennis scores are counted in fifteens. Gosselin died in 1604, having lived to be almost a hundred and served as royal librarian to four kings; he became responsible, under Charles IX, for transferring the royal library from Fontainebleau to Paris. The importance of his tennis treatise is pointed out by Malcolm Whitman in his chapter on "The Mystery of 'Fifteen' in Scoring" (Tennis Origins and Mysteries, 1932, pp. 70-75). As an astronomer and mathematician, Gosselin put forward two arguments for the tradition of scoring in fifteens, the first being that it was based on the sextant or sixth part of the circle which consists of sixty degrees, four times fifteen making a game of tennis, and four games a set according to contemporary practice in France. The second possibility was that the scoring method derived from the Clima, a geometrical figure sixty feet square or four times fifteen feet in length and breadth, so likewise forming four divisions of fifteen.
Whitman and Henderson could trace only one copy of the first edition (located in BnF, they state, although it does not appear in on-line records). This was dedicated to the Marquis D'O, a favourite of Henry III. Although there are more library holdings of the present edition, which has an 8-page dedication to the duc d'Esparnon, it is almost unknown outside France. Brunet II, 1672; Cioranesco 10855; cf. Henderson p. 177, citing the first but not the second edition; not in Adams; not in BL/STC French Books 1470 to 1600.
La signification de l'ancien jeu des chartes pythagorique, et la Déclaration de deux doubtes qui se trouvent comptant le jeu de la Paume. Paris: [G. Gorbin], 1582. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (16.2 x 10cm), collation: A-G
Second printing of Gosselin's Declaration des deux doubtes which occupies the last 13 pages. First printed separately in 1579, this was THE FIRST FRENCH BOOK ON TENNIS and concerned the important subject of why tennis scores are counted in fifteens. Gosselin died in 1604, having lived to be almost a hundred and served as royal librarian to four kings; he became responsible, under Charles IX, for transferring the royal library from Fontainebleau to Paris. The importance of his tennis treatise is pointed out by Malcolm Whitman in his chapter on "The Mystery of 'Fifteen' in Scoring" (Tennis Origins and Mysteries, 1932, pp. 70-75). As an astronomer and mathematician, Gosselin put forward two arguments for the tradition of scoring in fifteens, the first being that it was based on the sextant or sixth part of the circle which consists of sixty degrees, four times fifteen making a game of tennis, and four games a set according to contemporary practice in France. The second possibility was that the scoring method derived from the Clima, a geometrical figure sixty feet square or four times fifteen feet in length and breadth, so likewise forming four divisions of fifteen.
Whitman and Henderson could trace only one copy of the first edition (located in BnF, they state, although it does not appear in on-line records). This was dedicated to the Marquis D'O, a favourite of Henry III. Although there are more library holdings of the present edition, which has an 8-page dedication to the duc d'Esparnon, it is almost unknown outside France. Brunet II, 1672; Cioranesco 10855; cf. Henderson p. 177, citing the first but not the second edition; not in Adams; not in BL/STC French Books 1470 to 1600.
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