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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Sir William STIRLING-MAXWELL (owner). - [Jean de la VEPRIE (editor)]

Les Proverbes Commun

Beautiful printing, one of only 80 copies

Published: Crapelet, Paris, 1839

Edition: limited to 80 copies

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[Jean de LA VEPRIE (compiler/editor)] Les Proverbes Commun.

[Paris: Crapelet, chez Sylvestre, 23 August 1839]. Small 4to, collation: A-F4. Extra-illustrated with a page of autograph manuscript bibliographical notes by Stirling-Maxwell.

Contemporary green pebble-grained morocco by John Leighton of London, blindstamped arms on upper cover and monogram on the lower of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, spine lettered in gilt, original printed blue paper wrappers bound in, gilt edges (joints and corners lightly rubbed).

Provenance: Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (binding, armorial bookplate at front, "Keir/proverbs" collection bookplate at rear; autograph note); Lt.Col. V.S.M. De Guinsbourg (bookplate).

The Stirling-Maxwell copy of a very limited edition - 'only eighty copies printed' (according to Stirling-Maxwell's note on the front free endpaper). This work is a fine 19th-century reprint of the 16th-century original (published in Lyons in 1539).

Ref. Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. "An Essay towards a collection of books relating to proverbs, ... being a catalogue of those at Keir" London: 1860, p.52; OCLC 13021829 (8 locations given).

  • Binding Condition: bit rubbed, othewise excellent
  • Overall Condition: excellent
  • Size: 5 3/4 x 4 1/4ins; 145 x 108mm.
  • Sold By: Shadowrock Rare Books
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