Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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La Croix du Maine, Premier volume de la bibliothèque, Paris, 1584, eighteenth-century green morocco gilt, large-paper copy

Estimate

3,500 - 5,000 GBP

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LA CROIX DU MAINE, FRANÇOIS GRUDÉ DE. Premier volume de la bibliothèque du Sieur de la Croix-Du Maine, qui est un catalogue de toutes sortes d'autheurs, qui ont escrit en François depuis cinq cents ans & plus, jusques à ce jourd'huy: avec un discours. Paris: Abel L'Angelier, 1584


FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FRANCE, containing a proposal to the king for the formation of a national library and the first illustration of a modern bookcase (p. 511). The author proposes the arrangement of books according to a system closely resembling decimal classification. This work contains bio-bibliographical information about some 3000 authors (alphabetised by their Christian names), including the lawyer and poet Jean Taron, Sieur de la Roche-Taron (for whose copy of Du Bartas, see lot 1609). For the second French national bibliography, published less than half a year after the present volume, see lot 1675 (Du Verdier).

large paper copy, folio (399 x 258 mm). Roman and italic type. collation: ã8 ~e6 ~i4 õ4 A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 Aaa6: 304 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, portrait of Henri III on verso, woodcut initials and printer's ornaments throughout. (Dampstain at lower margin from Ss3 to end of textblock.)


binding: Eighteenth-century French olive green morocco (412 x 280 mm), possibly by Derome, 3 gilt fillets round sides, spine richly gilt with birds on branches in compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. (Extremities slightly rubbed.)


provenance: Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas, 3rd duc de Lauragnais (1733-1824), armorial bookplate, sale, Paris, 11 June 1777, lot 752, plausibly with his manuscript shelfmark to verso of front free endpaper—Justin, Comte de MacCarthy-Reagh (1744-1811), his sale, Jean-Jacques & Marie-Jacques Debure, Paris, part II, [27 January-6 May 1817], lot 5220, FF35 to—Gabriel Warée, Paris lot number and price pencilled on the front endpaper and his Catalogue des livres, qui se trouvent chez G. Warée, libraire (Paris 1819), p. 31—Adrian Leigh McLaughlin (1910-1979), his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, 7-8 October 1980, lot 1786. acquisition: Purchased in 1999 from Jonathan A. Hill, New York. references: USTC 1739; Theodore Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography (Oxford, 1935), pp. 24-5; 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. 2 

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