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DU PERRET. La Cour d'amour, ou les Bergers galans. Paris: Claude Barbin [volume 1] and Thomas Jolly [volume 2],1667.
2 volumes, 8° (156 x 90mm). Vol. II with engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, woodcut cul-de-lampe on Kk3v. (Lacking frontispiece and 3 plates of volume I, without half-titles, Dd1-5 of vol. I stained at lower corner, I4v-5r ink spotted, X7r of vol. II with small printing fault to bottom line.) Contemporary French red morocco, covers with triple fillet border, smooth spines with direct lettering, all over-gilt decoration, and the letter ‘B’ in small panel at foot, gilt turn-ins, blue-glazed endpapers, gilt edges (faintly rubbed). Provenance: Charles de Baschi (binding) Librarie Nourry (pencil inscription on front endpaper) – Alfred Lindeboom (armorial label).
SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS PASTORAL ROMANCE IN THE GENRE OF L'ASTRÉE.
The illustrations normally include 7 engravings by Sébastien Le Clerc, 4 in volume 1 and 3 in volume 2. This copy only has 3 plates for volume 2.
The privilege was granted to Thomas Jolly who shared it with Claude Barbin. It seems obvious that Barbin printed his share without being in possession of the engravings that Jolly ordered. This would explain why volume 1 of this copy (printed by Barbin) lacks its plates when volume 2 (printed by Jolly) is complete with its 3 plates); it is even more obvious as there are two blank leaves on the verso of which the plates should have been printed (folios O1 and Bb1). On the recto, these leaves bear a printed catch word: "I. part." This is the only example we can trace of such a state, described for the first time by Vérène de Soultrait in the catalogue of Jean Bonna's library.
The copy was luxuriously bound in red morocco in the 1770s for Charles de Baschi, marquis d'Aubais (1686-1777) with his characteristic initial "B" in gilt at foot of the spines. A historian and collector, Baschi built a superb library in his castle of Aubais (Gard) totalling up to 30,000 books and manuscripts. Partly auctioned after his death, the rest of his library burned with his castle in 1789.
Soultrait 17th century 99.
2 volumes, 8° (156 x 90mm). Vol. II with engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, woodcut cul-de-lampe on Kk3v. (Lacking frontispiece and 3 plates of volume I, without half-titles, Dd1-5 of vol. I stained at lower corner, I4v-5r ink spotted, X7r of vol. II with small printing fault to bottom line.) Contemporary French red morocco, covers with triple fillet border, smooth spines with direct lettering, all over-gilt decoration, and the letter ‘B’ in small panel at foot, gilt turn-ins, blue-glazed endpapers, gilt edges (faintly rubbed). Provenance: Charles de Baschi (binding) Librarie Nourry (pencil inscription on front endpaper) – Alfred Lindeboom (armorial label).
SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS PASTORAL ROMANCE IN THE GENRE OF L'ASTRÉE.
The illustrations normally include 7 engravings by Sébastien Le Clerc, 4 in volume 1 and 3 in volume 2. This copy only has 3 plates for volume 2.
The privilege was granted to Thomas Jolly who shared it with Claude Barbin. It seems obvious that Barbin printed his share without being in possession of the engravings that Jolly ordered. This would explain why volume 1 of this copy (printed by Barbin) lacks its plates when volume 2 (printed by Jolly) is complete with its 3 plates); it is even more obvious as there are two blank leaves on the verso of which the plates should have been printed (folios O1 and Bb1). On the recto, these leaves bear a printed catch word: "I. part." This is the only example we can trace of such a state, described for the first time by Vérène de Soultrait in the catalogue of Jean Bonna's library.
The copy was luxuriously bound in red morocco in the 1770s for Charles de Baschi, marquis d'Aubais (1686-1777) with his characteristic initial "B" in gilt at foot of the spines. A historian and collector, Baschi built a superb library in his castle of Aubais (Gard) totalling up to 30,000 books and manuscripts. Partly auctioned after his death, the rest of his library burned with his castle in 1789.
Soultrait 17th century 99.
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