(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) — Théodore Licquet

Estimate

1,000 - 2,000 USD

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Description

Lettre Neuvieme relative à la Bibliothèque Publique de Rouen, traduite de l'Anglias, avec des notes, par M. Thre Licquet, conservateur de cette bibliothèque. Paris: Imprimerie de Crapelet, 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

J.J. de Bure l'ainé (ex-dono) — Baron du Charmel (bookplate)

Literature

Jackson 52; Windle and Pippin A41

Catalogue Note

First edition, one of 100 copies printed.

Second French response to Dibdin's Tour in France and Germany. In this case, Jackson admitted that "Licquet's corrections of his rather careless account of some of the books he was shown at Rouen was sufficiently embarrassing to cause Dibdin to omit the whole account of that library in his second edition."

J.J. de Bure ainé's copy with his autograph note in first endcover: "Collationné, complet, le 7 décembre 1821. Ce livre m'a été donné par M. Crapelet."