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[Civilité - schoolbook] - La civilité honnest

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 EUR
[Civilité - schoolbook] - La civilité honnest
[Civilité - schoolbook] - La civilité honneste. En laquelle est mis la maniere d'aprendre à bien lire, prononcer & écrire, & mise en meilleur ordre qu'auparauant. Rouen, Pierre Seyer, c. 1751, [bound with] PYBRAC, [Guy DU FAUR, Seigneur de] - Les quatrains du Seigneur de Pybrac, Conseiller du Roy en son Conseil Privé. Rouen, Pierre Syer, [c. 1750 ?], 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo, contemp. wrappers (lower cover only preserved), 48, 32 pp. (edges frayed, 1st title soiled, minor dampstain). Very good copy on coarse paper. € 200/250 I : Unrecorded ? Extremely rare civilité schoolbook (Carter/Vervliet list editions at Troyes, Caen and Rouen [Seyer & Behourt, 1790], but not the present one. The civilité type used is the one by Philippe Danfrie (in use 1559-1599 and from 1742 onwards). Full-page woodcut ill. (verso of title). Large grotesque initials. II : Unrecorded ? Extremely rare civilité schoolbook, with the popular "Quatrains" of Pibrac (1529-1584), 1st published in 1574 and from 1583 also in civilité type for use at schools (Cp. Carter/Vervliet 220). On C1-4 also a "Nouveau traité d'ortographe". Title and additional texts in roman type. "Quatrains" in civilité. Ref. I-II: Not in Carter/Vervliet, Civilité types. Not in Conlon, Siècle des Lumières. Not in BL London, NUC.