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Les loisirs des bords du Loing, ou Recueil de pièces fugitives.

Title
Les loisirs des bords du Loing, ou Recueil de pièces fugitives.
Publication
A Langlée, près Montargis : [P.A. Léorier Delisle], MDCCLXXIV [1784].

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Additional Authors
  • Léorier Delisle, Pierre Alexandre, 1744-1826
  • Pelée de Varennes, Marie-Joseph-Hippolyte, 1741-1794
  • Lequatre, Claude
  • Livoy, Timothée de, 1715-1777.
Description
[8], iv, lx, 139, [1] pages, [14] leaves : samples; 16 cm (12mo)
Alternative Title
  • Loisirs des bords du Loing
  • Recueil de pièces fugitives
  • Essais de papiers fabriqués avec de l'herbe, de la soie et du tilleul.
Subject
  • Paper > Poetry > Early works to 1800
  • Papermaking > France > Langlée > Early works to 1800
  • Society verse, French > France > Montargis
  • French poetry > 18th century
  • Montargis (France) > History > Early works to 1800
  • Gâtinais (France) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
Genre/Form
  • Book papers (Paper) – France – 18th century.
  • Colored papers (Paper) – France – 18th century.
  • Grass fibers (Paper) – France – 18th century.
  • Bark papers (Paper) – France – 18th century.
  • Duplex papers (Paper) – France – 18th century.
Note
  • Dedication signed (preliminary page [8]): Léorier de L'Isle.
  • Printed on rose-colored paper (gathering pi on rose/white paper) from the mill at Langlée. Compiled and published by Léorier Delisle, director of the mill, to demonstrate the suitabilily of colored paper for the printing of light verse and the paper's ease on the eye. See Note de l'éditeur, pages i-iv (1st group).
  • "Il y en eut cinquante exemplaires imprimés"--Quérard.
  • Another edition (A Montargis : Chez P. Prevost, libraire ..., 1784), printed on white and blue paper, lacks supplement of paper samples included in the present edition (14 leaves) and 10 of the 11 poems printed in the supplement, but includes 8 poems lacking in the present edition.
  • Place of publication from special title page to section of samples.
  • Printed by Claude Lequatre, Montargis; see "Leorier de L'Isle," by Hiver de Beauvoir, in Archives du bibliophile, v. 3 (1860), pages 119-121.
  • Signatures: pi-2pi² [superscript pi]a² a-e⁶ A-L⁶ M⁴.
  • Vignette on title page: Papillon sculp. 1 print : woodcut ; 3 x 3 cm. Woodcut and ornamental ead- and tailpieces.
  • "Les loisirs des bords du Loing" (pages [1]-139) comprises poems by Pelée de Varennes and other amateur poets from Montargis; see Hiver de Beauvoir. Ascribed to Pelée de Varennes alone by Quérard, Brunet and BN, following Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes.
  • "Extrait d'un voyage en Gâtinais : lettres écrites de Montargis a M. de ***": pages [i]-lx. Based on "Mémoire sur la ville de Montargis," by Timothée Hureau de Livoy, published in Nouvelles recherches sur la France (Paris, 1766), v. 2, pages 1-76; see Quérard, cited above.
  • Section of samples ([14] leaves at end, not included in signature count above) has half-title "Supplément aux Loisirs des bords du Loing," and special title page, which reads: Essais de papiers fabriqués avec de l'herbe, de la soie et du tilleul. -- A Langlée, près Montargis, 1784. Comprises 3 leaves of rose/white paper and 11 samples of other experimental paper by Léorier Delisle on which additional poems have been printed (1 leaf each of grass paper, silk paper and linden bark paper, with the poems relating to the specific paper, and 8 leaves of bicolored duplex rag paper).
  • "Vers imprimés sur du papier fait avec de l'herbe, inventé par M. Léorier Delisle, directeur de la Manufacture de Langlée, près Montargis": page 72. Three other poems relating to paper in section of samples.
Indexed In (note)
  • Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.)
  • Quérard, J.M. France littéraire
  • Bibliothèque nationale (France). Le livre (1972)
Provenance (note)
  • Emma Jouny (autograph).
Binding (note)
  • Contemporary dark brown sheep; spine gilt; red morocco spine label.
Call Number
Schlosser 609
OCLC
32791264
Title
Les loisirs des bords du Loing, ou Recueil de pièces fugitives.
Publisher
A Langlée, près Montargis : [P.A. Léorier Delisle], MDCCLXXIV [1784].
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. 3, column 1147
Quérard, J.M. France littéraire, v. 7, page 23
Bibliothèque nationale (France). Le livre (1972), 109
Binding
Contemporary dark brown sheep; spine gilt; red morocco spine label. NN
Provenance
Emma Jouny (autograph). NN
Local Note
Schlosser Coll. copy imperfect: p. 75-76 wanting.
Local Subject
Book paper, Colored -- Specimens.
Paper, Plant fiber -- Specimens.
Paper, Bark -- Specimens.
Duplex paper -- Specimens.
Place of Publication
France Langlée.
France Montargis.
Added Author
Léorier Delisle, Pierre Alexandre, 1744-1826, editor, publisher, papermaker.
Pelée de Varennes, Marie-Joseph-Hippolyte, 1741-1794, author.
Lequatre, Claude, printer.
Livoy, Timothée de, 1715-1777.
Added Title
Essais de papiers fabriqués avec de l'herbe, de la soie et du tilleul.
Research Call Number
Schlosser 609
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