Dibdin

Voyage Bibliographique Archéologique et Pittoresque en France. 4 volumes

1825ref. 009738Paris: Crapelet 1825 4 volumes 8vo 28 cm XXIV 344 pp.; 4 374 2 pp.; VIII 384 pp.; 4 446 2 pp. Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt-tooled compartments gilt lettering-pieces polished top edges fore- and bottom edges untrimmed green silk bookmarks marbled endpapers uniformly age-toned with occasional foxing; bookplates on pastedowns of each volume. Large-paper copy on papier vélin the binding signed by Thouvenin. A complete set of the French translation of the celebrated bibliographical travelogue by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1776-1847 the most influential English bibliographer and bibliophile writer of the Romantic period dedicated by the publisher G. A. Crapelet to the members of the Société des Bibliophiles Français. First published in English as the Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany 1821 the work is among Dibdin's most important and one of the great literary monuments of nineteenth-century bibliophily. Structured as 36 letters vols. I-II cover Dibdin's journey through Normandy -- Dieppe Rouen Caen Bayeux Coutances and the return to Paris via Falaise and Versailles -- while vols. III-IV are devoted principally to Paris with extended accounts of the Bibliothèque Royale its illuminated manuscripts and rare early printed books as well as the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal Sainte-Geneviève and the Mazarine concluding with a journey to Strasbourg. Vol. III contains a separate translator's preface by Crapelet who notes the controversial reception of Dibdin's original among the French scholars and institutions it described. A desirable complete set in a distinguished contemporary binding by Joseph Thouvenin 1791-1834 one of the foremost Parisian bookbinders of the Restoration period. Crapelet hardcover

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