Bibliotheque De M G De Pixerecourt Avec Des Notes Litteraires Et Bibliographiques De Ses Deux

by Rene Charles Guilbert Auction Catalogue Pixerecourt

$950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

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

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