HISTOIRE PLAISANTE, facétieuse, et récréative... - Lot 30 - Giquello

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HISTOIRE PLAISANTE, facétieuse, et récréative... - Lot 30 - Giquello
HISTOIRE PLAISANTE, facétieuse, et récréative ; du Lazare de Tormes Espagnol : En laquelle l'esprit mélancolique se peut recréer & prendre plaisir : Augmentée de la seconde partie, nouvellement traduite de l'Espagnol en François. Antwerp, Guislain Jansens, 1598. In-16 of 308 pp. and (2) ff. in red jansenist morocco, inner lace, lemon morocco lining, edges gilt on marbling (Trautz-Bauzonnet). French edition of the 16th century, half original. The translation of the first part, due to the Lyon bookseller Jean Saugrain, had already appeared in 1560: this first edition is known from only two copies. The translation of the second part, by Jean van der Meeren, appears here for the first time. (French Vernacular Books, no. 33256: eight copies listed, of which only one is in the United States, at Berkeley.) The invention of a literary genre: the first picaresque novel. A first-person narrative in which a beggar named Lazarille relates his adventures and his rise in sixteenth-century Spanish society, which he mocks. Born into wretched conditions on the river Tormes in the province of Salamanca, he managed to take on the office of town crier and became a respectable and married man of Toledo: "in charge of shouting the wines that are sold in this city, & of attending the subhastings of goods, shouting lost things & making company to those who are punished by justice, I am Town Crier, Sir, in good language." Published in Spanish in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes predates Don Quixote (1605) by several decades. It met with immense success, as evidenced by the numerous editions and translations throughout Europe. A perfect copy in morocco lined by Trautz-Bauzonnet. From the libraries of Eugène Paillet, with autograph signature on a flyleaf (1887, no. 339) and Antoine Mouradian, with ex-libris.
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