Lot 932
L. Petit, Discours satyriques et moraux. Rouen 1686.
Estimate
€ 600
Starting Price
€ 400
Lot:
932
Category:
Literature from the 17th to 19th century
(Petit, Louis): Discours satyriques et moraux ou satyres generales. Rouen: Richard Lallemant 1686. 15.2 x 9.1 cm. Masterful binding by René Victor Chambolle: Dark yellow hand-bound cover (signed “Chambolle-Duru”) on five raised bands with two black spine labels; on the front cover, an inlaid motif of a humpbacked black cat standing on a pedestal; on the back cover, an inlaid colored jester’s mask. The front and back covers are adorned at the top and bottom with lavish, double-row decorative bands featuring apple motifs in gold embossing. The spine features floral gold embossing. With gold-embossed fillets along the outer edges and rich, multi-row ornamental gilding along the inner edges. Full gold edging. Classic colored endpapers in a combed marble technique. With a woodcut title vignette, several woodcut head vignettes, and woodcut initials. 9 leaves, 125 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 leaf of errata.
(The upper corner of the front cover, the front spine joint, and the upper head are minimally scuffed. Each cover has 2 tiny scratch marks or smudges. The title page has a small hole in the unprinted area. Pages D² and G² have a professionally repaired tear in the outer margin. Sheets E and F have slight crease marks in the lower right corner. Slightly browned and with occasional minor age spots.)
Brunet IV, 529 („peu commun“). Cioranescu 54571. Lemonnyer III, 357. - First edition of this rare collection of poetic satires, published anonymously. The author, Louis Petit—a friend of Pierre Corneille and the editor of the great writer’s plays after his death—appears as the signatory of the dedication to Charles de Sainte-Maure, Duke of Montausier (1610–1690). - The masterful binding is by René Victor Chambolle, who joined Hippolyte Duru’s workshop in 1861 and succeeded him two years later. The Chambolle-Duru bindery, which began signing its work “Chambolle-Duru” in 1863, was among the preferred suppliers of many aristocrats and bibliophiles. - On the verso of the front endpaper, a handwritten entry in black ink: “Decorated at Beaulieu-sur-Mer with the satirical cat + fool’s head,” dated February 1926, signed C. S. Stewart. - From the libraries of Edouard Moura (bookplate on the front endpaper) and J. Noilly (bookplate as a mounted paper strip between the endpaper and the first blank page, dated 1886). - Includes the errata sheet.
(The upper corner of the front cover, the front spine joint, and the upper head are minimally scuffed. Each cover has 2 tiny scratch marks or smudges. The title page has a small hole in the unprinted area. Pages D² and G² have a professionally repaired tear in the outer margin. Sheets E and F have slight crease marks in the lower right corner. Slightly browned and with occasional minor age spots.)
Brunet IV, 529 („peu commun“). Cioranescu 54571. Lemonnyer III, 357. - First edition of this rare collection of poetic satires, published anonymously. The author, Louis Petit—a friend of Pierre Corneille and the editor of the great writer’s plays after his death—appears as the signatory of the dedication to Charles de Sainte-Maure, Duke of Montausier (1610–1690). - The masterful binding is by René Victor Chambolle, who joined Hippolyte Duru’s workshop in 1861 and succeeded him two years later. The Chambolle-Duru bindery, which began signing its work “Chambolle-Duru” in 1863, was among the preferred suppliers of many aristocrats and bibliophiles. - On the verso of the front endpaper, a handwritten entry in black ink: “Decorated at Beaulieu-sur-Mer with the satirical cat + fool’s head,” dated February 1926, signed C. S. Stewart. - From the libraries of Edouard Moura (bookplate on the front endpaper) and J. Noilly (bookplate as a mounted paper strip between the endpaper and the first blank page, dated 1886). - Includes the errata sheet.