(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) — (Gilbert Bayard)

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 USD

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Description

Christianissimi Francorum Regis, adversus Imperatorem Electum prorogati duelli autorem Defensio. [Colophon]: [Paris]: Galliot du Pré [1528]
Ink, paper and cow

4to (214 x 147 mm). Title within a woodcut border containing fifteen coats of arms, an eight-line engraved opening initial 'A' with three putti, eight leaves, entirely untrimmed, bound with twenty-one blanks; lightly spotted. Nineteenth-century polished calf, spine lettered in gilt; joints repaired and still fragile.

[With:] Autograph letter signed T. F. Dibdin and dated "Kensington. Nov. 5 1823". One page (9 x 7 1/4 in.; 229 x 165 mm).

Provenance

Bloomsbury, New York, 2009, lot 28. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale though Bernard Quaritch

Catalogue Note

A 1528 religious "tract" described by Dibdin in his thanks for the loan of it:
"I return to you your curious Latin tract with thanks for the perusal of it. The condition is quite piquante to a Biblio-maniac! …"