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BÉRANGER (Pierre-Jean de).
Oeuvres complètes. Paris, Perrotin, 1847, 2 volumes -
Last songs from 1834 to 1851. With a preface by the author. Paris, Perrotin, 1860, one volume - My biography. With an appendix and notes. Paris, Perrotin, 1860, one volume - Musique des chansons de Béranger. Airs notés anciens et modernes. Ninth edition revised by Frédéric Bérat, augmented by the music of the posthumous songs of airs composed by Béranger, Halévy, Gounod and Laurent de Rillé. Paris, Perrotin, 1865, one volume - Chansons de Béranger. Supplément. Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1866, one volume.
Together six volumes in-8, richly and uniformly decorated spine bindings, the first two (Oeuvres complètes) in midnight blue morocco lined with red morocco, multiple gilt framing with corner motifs on the boards, gilt filets and wide roulette on the lining, gilt edges on witnesses, covers and spines preserved; the next two in the same morocco, boards more simply decorated with a double set of gilt fillets, gilt edges, illustrated covers and spines preserved; the last two in half morocco with corners, gilt head, untrimmed, covers preserved (Mercier, sr de Cuzin).
Remarkable set, one of the most complete ever.
It includes: 1° The 1847 edition of the Oeuvres, the most complete edition of Béranger's songs, the last one published during the author's lifetime.
It is decorated, in the first edition, with a facsimile of a letter from Béranger to Perrotin, a portrait of the author after Sandoz, here in three states, and 52 figures outside the text engraved on steel after Daubigny, Johannot, Lemud, Charlet, Rafffet, etc., the so-called Lemud suite.
All plates are here in double state, before the letter on chine glue (very rare) and final state with the letter on strong vellum.
The copy contains the Avis au relieur, present in only a few copies. This
Notice, which does not mention the portrait, is the mark, according to Carteret, of the first copies printed.
Finally, the copy includes all 49 covers printed on yellow paper and all decorated with the same woodcut vignette.
2° Les Dernières chansons de 1834 à 1851.
This 1860 reprint of the original posthumous edition of 1857 is enriched on the latter with a suite of 14 figures by Lemud, engraved on steel in the same spirit as the previous one, all plates also here in double state. Catalogue by Perrotin bound in fine.
3° My biography.
A more complete edition than the original of 1857. It is increased with notes and contains three unpublished songs as well as eight figures out of text engraved on steel after Raffet, Sandoz and Rattier, all in double state, like the previous ones, with the letter on white and before the letter on glued chine.
The copy has also been enriched with a portrait of Béranger by Sandoz engraved by Massard, another one, at full length, engraved after Charlet, in a double state (on chine before the letter and on white with the letter), and finally with the photograph of the author's death mask, also in a double state Extracts from the Perrotin catalogue bound in fine.
4° La musique des chansons.
The most complete edition. It contains a full-length portrait of Béranger, a title vignette and 116 figures from Grandville's suite printed on chine volant, 80 of which are accompanied by a second state, on white.
5° Chansons de Béranger. Supplément.
This Supplément regrouping the erotic songs had been published in 1834 and 1836. The present reprint, identical, was printed in only 175 copies, of which 15 in Hollande and 175 on wove paper, including this one.
The copy has also been enriched with an autograph letter signed by Béranger (three pages in-12), dated 27 November 1839, addressed to Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin, editor, the same year, of the Encyclopédie du commerçant: "Here, my dear
Guillaumin, is the letter you asked me for Mr. Laffitte. I doubt that you will get much from our man, however rich he is in the funds you need [...]. You are kind enough to send me your Dictionary; perhaps you think I will not read it. You are mistaken, my dear Guillaumin; I can already see how much I can learn from reading it, and, old as I am, I love to learn. So count me among your most assiduous readers. I wish you 100,000 like me [...]".
Magnificent reunion, superbly bound by Mercier.
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