DU FAIL, Noël (circa 1520-1591) Les Contes et discours d'Eut... - photo 1

DU FAIL, Noël (circa 1520-1591) Les Contes et discours d'Eut...

Lot 25
03.11.2020 14:30UTC +01:00
Classic
Starting price
€ 700
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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Lot 25 | DU FAIL, Noël (circa 1520-1591) Les Contes et discours d'Eut...
Estimate value
€ 700 – 1 000
DU FAIL, Noël (circa 1520-1591). Les Contes et discours d'Eutrapel, par le feu seigneur de La Hérissaye, gentilhomme breton. Rennes [Paris] : pour Noël Glamet, de Quinpercorentin [Jean Richer], 1585.



Rare édition originale en maroquin ancien. Cette œuvre « trouva des amateurs empressés, et dès 1603 elle comptait sept ou huit éditions…Ce compteur imite Rabelais, mais il est bien supérieur aux mauvais écrivains qui…voulurent marcher sur les traces du joyeux curé de Meudon ; il narre souvent avec vivacité, avec une moquerie incisive et fine. Une certaine gravité d’esprit se mêle chez lui à l’humeur satirique et à la gaîté de l’écrivain facétieux ; l’historiette est un accessoire, un dernier moyen de persuasion pour mettre en relief quelques sages conseils, quelques préceptes de morale » (Hoefer, Nouvelle biographie universelle, 1852, XV, col. 60-61). L’adresse présente sur la page de titre est fictive ; on doit l’identification de son véritable imprimeur à Louis Loriot et son article "L'imprimeur des contes d'Eutrapel, 1585" (Revue des livres anciens, T. II, fasc. 3, 1916, pp. 312-313). Ultime facétie, si le titre évoque un ouvrage posthume, le livre a bien paru du vivant de son auteur. Brunet, II, col. 1164 ; French Vernacular Books, I, 17190.



In-8 (160 x 94 mm). Édition originale. La page de titre semble imprimée sur papier plus épais ou contrecollée. Bandeaux, lettrines, fleurons, culs-de-lampe (piqûres et rousseurs éparses ; manque de papier minime dans l’angle inférieur droit du feuillet M4). Maroquin rouge ancien, dos à nerfs, lettre dorée, gardes de papier marbré, tranches dorées sur marbrure (reliure restaurée). Provenance : Georges Massoulard (ex-libris).

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