CHILDISH CIVILITY. La Civilité puerile et... - Lot 26 - Giquello

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CHILDISH CIVILITY. La Civilité puerile et... - Lot 26 - Giquello
CHILDISH CIVILITY. La Civilité puerile et Thresor de la Ieunesse, fort utile & necessaire pour endoctriner la dicte Ieunesse, tant à bien & modtement vivre, qu'à escrire, poinctuer & parler françois. Lyon, Benoît Rigaud, 1583. In-16 of 64 ff. the last one, not numbered, blank : midnight blue morocco, triple cold fillet, gilt figure at the corners, ornamented spine, the same crowned figure repeated, inner lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet 1858). Exquisite and extremely rare small volume printed in civil type: one of the two known copies of this Lyon edition, the only one in private hands. The edition is decorated with an architectural title-frontispiece with grotesque motifs. Baudrier, who has not seen it, cites it only after Brunet. The only copy cited by French Vernacular Books (no. 18427) is in the Cornell Library. Inspired by the cursive script in use in the 16th century, the typeface of civility was engraved and designed for the first time in 1557 by Robert Granjon, who named it "lettre françoise d'art de main", with the ambition of founding a national typography. It was counterfeited the following year in Paris by Philippe Danfrie and Richard Breton. These new typefaces, of which there are at least twenty engraved between 1557 and 1599 in Europe, will be used for the printing of some literary and scientific texts, but their use remained limited mainly to educational works. La Civilité puérile is a small manual of good manners intended for the education of children. It contains moral precepts, for example how to get up in the morning, modesty in dress, how to keep to the Church, how to sneeze, humility at the table. One of the first manuals of this kind was composed by Erasmus who published De civilitate morum puerilium in Basle in 1530. A beautiful copy in Trautz-Bauzonnet morocco with the cipher of the Count Alexandre de Lurde (1800-1872). The volume bears the joint bookplate with the cipher of the bibliophile and that of his nephew, Baron Alphonse de Ruble, who had inherited the family library which he had continued to enrich (catalogue 1899, n° 80). Small handwritten note crossed out at the top of the title. (Baudrier, t. III, p. 376.- Brunet, t. II, col. 75.- Jimenes, Les Caractères de civilité. Typographie & calligraphie sous l'Ancien Régime, 2011: "Imitating handwriting, the caractères de civilité constitute an ideal tool for preceptors and schoolmasters in charge of teaching reading and writing to pupils, who can thus learn to form and read handwriting well.")
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