Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Du Verdier, La bibliotheque, Lyon, 1585, eighteenth-century mottled calf

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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DU VERDIER, ANTOINE. La Bibliothèque d'Antoine du Verdier, Seigneur de Vauprivas. Contenant le catalogue de tous ceux qui ont escrit, ou traduict en François... Avec un discours sur les bonnes lettres servant de Preface. Et à la fin un supplement de l'Epitome de la Bibliotheque de Gesner. Lyon: Jean d'Ogerolles for Barthélemy Honorat and Thibaud Ancelin, 1585


FIRST EDITION of the second French national bibliography, published less than half a year after the first (François Grude de la Croix du Maine's Premier volume de la bibliothèque, for which see lot 1735). It is unknown as to whether Du Verdier worked with knowledge of de la Croix du Maine's pioneering bibliographical undertaking, or whether he independently conceived his own work. However, in the eighteenth century, they were seen as complementary and combined into a single, enlarged and corrected, edition by Rigoley de Juvigny (Paris, 1772-6). The present copy includes Du Verdier's short supplement to Gesner.

first edition, 2 parts in one volume, folio (326 x 207 mm). Mostly Roman and italic type, with Privilege du Roy on 3M2r in civilité type. collation: *6 **6 ***2 a-z6 A-3Gg6 3H2 3I6-3L6 3M4; A-F6 (F6 blank): 668 leaves. Title-page to first part printed in red and black with large woodcut printer's device, another printer's device to verso of final text leaf in first part, repeated on title-page of second part, title-page of second part with woodcut border and author portrait on verso, woodcut initials and printer's ornaments. (Margins of first few leaves wormed with occasional slight loss, light small hole in text of 2F6 and 2G1, upper outer comers of gatherings 2N and 3G torn away without loss, damp-stain in upper margins, a few ink- stains.)


binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf (335 x 232 mm), spine with five raised bands, red morocco lettering piece to second compartment, red edges. (Tears on both covers.)


provenance: ?"L. Melineau", faint pencil ownership inscription to title-page—Sotheby's, London, 20 October 1992, lot 1054. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 1606; Adams, D-1215; Bernard Breslauer & Roland Folter, Bibliography: its history and development: catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club from April 21 to June 6, 1981 (New York 1984), no. 30 

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