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G, E, ...pître à Charles Panckoucke.
[Paris], 1819. (PANCKOUCKE, CHARLES-LOUIS-FLEURY) Ten different copies: ONE PRINTED ON VELLUM and 9 printed on different colors of wove paper. 10 volumes in one vols., 4to (21.5 x 13.0 cm). 4 leaves (Title leaf and 6 pages of verse signed "E.G."). Bound together in contemporary gold-tooled red straight- grained morocco gilt, flat spine, edges uncut. OCLC: 5586619. ¶ Extremely rare and possibly unique copy of this verse tribute to the great publisher Panckoucke (1780-1844), who produced some of the monumental books of the 19th century, such as Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, Description de l'Egypte and La Flore Médicale. His wife, Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke (1784-1860), painter and pupil of Redouté, contributed to the afore-mentioned as well as to other plate-books printed by her husband; and the poems praises her charms and talents as well. Ten copies of the poem, one printed on vellum and 9 on paper of different colors (including mauve, blue, green, beige, pink), are here bound together; it may be the Panckoucke family's own copy. The book in any form is very rare; it is not in Van Praet or Alston; there is no copy on any paper in the British Library; nor is the poem mentioned in the dictionaries of anonymous and pseudonymous works by Barbier and Quérard. OCLC locates one copy only of the book (Cambridge U.) - but it doesn't contain the issue on vellum
Offered for US$ 6000.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 223120