Caracteres, pensées, maximes, et sentimens
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1228
Author
Dupuy La Chapelle, N. (16..-17..)
Title
Caracteres, pensées, maximes, et sentimens
Statement of responsibility
Dédiez à Monseigneur le Duc de La Rochefaucault
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Nicolas de Burre; chez l'Auteur
Collection
Not identified
Printer
Not identified ("Suivant la Copie" imprint, probable counterfeit edition)
Date
1694
Imprint (isbd)
Suivant la Copie. A Paris: chez Nicolas de Burre, à la Ville de Montpellier, sur le Quay des Augustins; et chez l'Auteur, ruë des Petits Augustins, vis-à-vis la petite ruë des Marets Fauxbourgs S. Germain, 1694
Language
French
Print run
Not identified
Collation
208 pages
Illustrations
Ornamental initials and woodcut vignettes
Format
Duodecimo (12º) approx.
Dimensions
14 × 8 cm
Typographic signatures
A–I¹²
Paper type
Late seventeenth-century laid rag paper
Watermarks
Not appreciable in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman and italic typography; single-column manual printing; ornamental initials and woodcut vignettes
Binding type
Period full leather binding
Colours
Dark brown
Decoration
Gilt tooling on the spine; gilt rolls and fillets; handmade marbled endpapers
Spine
Spine with false raised bands and integrated title label; visible remains of gilt decoration
Endpapers
Marbled paper in green, brown, pink and black tones
Content description
Collection of moral characters, thoughts, maxims and sentiments by Dupuy La Chapelle, a moralist in the wake of La Bruyère, dedicated to François VII, Duke of La Rochefoucauld. It closes with an "Entretien", a dialogue between Euthyme and Philémon
Chapters
Dedication to François, Duke of La Rochefoucauld; moral characters, thoughts and maxims; "Entretien" between Euthyme and Philémon
Subject matter
Classical French morality; characters and maxims; moral philosophy; court literature; seventeenth-century thought
Note 1
"Suivant la Copie" reprint of the Paris edition of 1693; probable counterfeit edition
Note 2
Authorship according to the BnF: N. Dupuy La Chapelle (ark:/12148/cb10546505d); La Rochefoucauld is the dedicatee, not the author
Note 3
Preserves old full leather binding
Note 4
Laid paper visible under transmitted light with clearly appreciable chain lines and laid lines
Note 5
Old bookplate of “Casa del Sagrado Corazón en Madrid. Biblioteca de la Comunidad”
Main subject
Seventeenth-century French moral literature
Subtopics
French aphorisms; moral philosophy; French classicism; social criticism; literary maxims; court literature
Shelfmark
1228
Condition
Good; solid binding; wear and rubbing to the leather; scattered foxing and stains; stable paper
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Preserves old religious bookplate and original marbled endpapers; manual letterpress printing with perceptible relief