(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) — Georges-Adrien Crapelet

Estimate

1,000 - 2,000 USD

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Description

Lettre Trentieme concernant l'Imprimerie et la Librairie de Paris, traduite de l'Anglais, avec des notes, par G[eorges] A[drien] Crapelet, Imprimeur. Paris: Imprimerie Craquelet, 1821
Ink and paper

Large 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 in.; 268 x 175 mm). Printer's device on title-page; some spotting and foxing. Contemporary red glazed boards, uncut.

Provenance

Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon (inscription). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 1993

Literature

Jackson 50; Windle and Pippin A39

Catalogue Note

First edition, one of 100 copies printed. First of the three responses from French bibliophiles to Dibdin's Tour in France and Germany. As Jackson comments: "Apparently no matter how gracious Dibdin intended to be, what he wrote annoyed some Frenchmen so much that they went to the trouble and expense of translating his work in order to refute it with rather absurd footnotes." It might be fair to point out that Dibdin's works were often (if not always) subjects to responses (from Beckford, Clarke, Gardiner or some "annoyed Frenchmen").

Inscribed by Crapelet to Comte Siméon.

Dibdin, in his response A Roland for an Oliver mentions twenty-five large-paper copies were printed. Jackson could not find any example and described the two Harvard copies as "on fine paper;" Windle & Pippin described a copy on "Papier Vélinthe" (large-paper) bound Rabaiotti's copy of Smith-Aldenham 1821 Tour (now at Wormsley Library). For the Licquet response, there is no mention of large-paper copies and the paper used for both edition are similar, which suggests there is no large-paper copy for this edition.