PIEDAGNEL, Alexandre. ~ Un bouquiniste parisien: le père Lécureux … Frontispice à l’eau-forte, composé et gravé par Maxime Lalanne. Paris: Librairie ancienne et moderne Édouard Rouveyre, 1878.
8vo (200 × 128 mm) in half-sheets, pp. 68, [4]; with an etched frontispiece by Lalanne; title printed in red and black; some light foxing; uncut in the original printed wrappers, spine chipped at head.
First edition: one of 450 numbered copies printed on Hollande, out of a total print run of 500. The bibliophile journalist and poet Alexandre Piédagnel (1831–1903)—friend of Mallarmé, secretary to Jules Janin, editor of the Librairie des bibliophiles—here profiles Lécureux (1795–1875), a Paris second-hand bookseller for more than fifty years, ‘unique en son genre’ (p. 23), who specialised in selling odd volumes.
It opens with an extract from a new, enlarged edition of Piédagnel’s book Jules Janin, ‘Les joies du bibliophile’.
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