Lot no. 134
PIRON (Alexis). Complete works. Paris, M. Lambert, 1776. 7 volumes in-8, green morocco, triple gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated, inner lace, gilt edges (period binding). First posthumous edition of the works of Alexis Piron (1689-1773), published by Jean-Antoine Rigoley de Juvigny and decorated with a portrait by Augustin de Saint-Aubin. This is the most complete collective edition of this prolific poet, goguettier and playwright from Dijon, who riddled Voltaire with his epigrams.
A very fine copy in contemporary green morocco attributable to Bradel-Derome.
From the Léon Laurent-Pichat library (1927, n°115), with bookplate.
Brunet, IV, 674 - Cohen, 806 - Quérard, VII, 189.
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