Bibliothèque de M. G. de Pixerécourt, avec des Notes littéraires et bibliographiques de ses deux...
Engraved vignette of the collector’s bookplate on half-title. 2 p.l., [4] (schedule of sale), vii, 414, 4 pp. 8vo, cont. cloth-backed marbled boards. Paris: 1838.
Pixerécourt (1773-1844), the author of more than a hundred plays, “the Shakespeare and Corneille of the Boulevards,” was one of the founders of the Société des Bibliophiles français. The sale of his library was a major event in the annals of French bibliophily. The catalogue features wonderfully detailed and original literary and bibliographical notes by Charles Nodier and Paul Lacroix, the latter having taking down some of Pixerécourt’s own dictations.
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