Premier volume de la bibliothèque du sieur de la Croix Du Maine.

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Creator

Grudé, François

Title

Premier volume de la bibliothèque du sieur de la Croix Du Maine.

Coverage

Paris

Publisher

L’Angelier

Date

1584.

Description

The first edition of the first French national bibliography and literary biography. François Grudé (1552–1592) at an early age began gathering a large personal collection of books in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish and Italian. Grudé issued a prospectus for a detailed catalogue of his library, but it aroused little interest, and he eventually published this Premier volume on his own. Two additional volumes were planned, but neither appeared: at age forty Grudé was assassinated for suspected Protestant sympathies.

Source

Gift of Harrison D. Horblit.