BERQUIN ArnaudLivre Rare Book
Berquin Arnaud.ABAA
Idylle.
177532768Paris no date 1775. 4to 26.9 cm 10.6". Part 2 only of 2. 8 pp. <br><br>The first edition of the => first work published by M. Arnaud Berquin 174791 this => entirely engraved dialogue between Lamon Lysis and "La femme" was issued together with the Pygmalion scène lyrique which Berquin translated into verse from the original by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As in the instance of a copy at Texas A&M University the Idylle in hand has been separately bound in our copy's case finely bound well highlighting the vignette and tailpiece engraved by Charles-Étienne Gaucher 17401804 after Clément Pierre Marillier 17401808 and the text engraved in an attractive italic "hand" by Droüet.<br>Â Â Â Â The two-part text was not reprinted until 1883 by J. Lemonnyer in an edition of 525 copies.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Fine olive brown morocco gilt ca. 1910 and very much expressing that era's style. Each board double-ruled in gilt and finely framed with a canopy of elegant gilt garlands title gilt at center of front cover. Spine gilt extra from top to bottom in a leafy vine pattern. Board edges single-ruled in gilt turn-ins double-ruled in gilt with a rule of delicate gilt beads between french combed marbled endpapers in an exceptionally pretty and precise pattern. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Cioranescu 11517. Bound as above second part only of two separately; binding a little rubbed only at joints edges and one corner of front cover. Paper chosen for blank endpapers unevenly bleached in production to now-spotty but not unpleasant effect; text with a little age-toning at upper edges and some light dust-soiling at deckle edges. => A bibliophile's pleasure. unknown books
