BÉRANGER (Pierre-Jean de).

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BÉRANGER (Pierre-Jean de).
Oeuvres, mises dans un nouvel ordre et orné de quarante gravures. Bruxelles, Tarlier, Jules Boquet, 1828-29. Four volumes in one large in-18, red half-chagrin with corners, spine decorated throughout with rocaille irons, untrimmed, grey covers illustrated with lithographed scenes preserved (Devauchelle). Rare Brussels edition given in parallel to the edition of Paris, Perrotin and Brussels, Tarlier (for the fourth volume), 1829 (cf. Carteret, III, pp. 74-75: Suite Johannot). It is illustrated, in addition to numerous woodcuts, with forty charming out-of-text vignettes in the form of medallions finely engraved with a burin after Alfred and Tony Johannot, Charlet, Grenier, Grandville, etc., which belong to the first series of the Parisian edition. Their publisher, Jules Boquet, was "correspondent or associate of Perrotin" (cf. Brivois. Bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Béranger, p. 35, who describes this edition not mentioned by Carteret, specifying: "it deserves a particular mention; it is decorated with culs-de-lampe and contains the relation of the trials made to Béranger, as well as a general alphabetical table of the songs; three things which are missing in the Paris edition"). All the vignettes, with the exception of the three mentioned by Carteret, bear the signature of Perrotin, publisher, considered, for some of them, by the same bibliographer as a first printing mark. A rare copy printed on china paper. It is enriched with the portrait of Béranger by Scheffer, engraved by Cousin and 14 additional vignettes from the Parisian suite, the whole forming a total of 55 vignettes, a composition identical to that of the Beraldi-Meeûs copy sold in 2015 (Bibliothèque Henri Lafond, n° 19).
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