LE CHASSEUR BIBLIOGRAPHE - Lot 74

LE CHASSEUR BIBLIOGRAPHE Bibliographical, philological, literary, critical and anecdotal review, edited by a society of bibliographers and bibliophiles, followed by a notice of rare and curious books. 1st year: n° 1, January 1862-n° 12, December 1862; 2nd year: n° 1, January 1863-n° 12, December 1863; 3rd year: n° 1, January 1867-n° 3, March 1867. Paris, François, Libraire, then Léon Roudiez, Libraire-Éditeur. Texts by Charles Asselineau, Prosper Blanchemain, Gustave Brunet, Étienne Charavay, Ernest Courbet, R. Desroches, Anatole France, H. Gourdon de Genouillac, Léon Roudiez, A. Thibault [Anatole France], Eugène Villemin, etc. Complete collection. 27 issues in 27 in-8 paperbacks. Handwritten notes by Vasseur (5 ff.). Joint: - Le Livre du Bibliophile (Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, éditeur, 1874), written by Anatole France; - 1 unpublished frontispiece engraved by Bracquemont for Anatole France's Poèmes civiques (Lemerre Éditeur, 1868); - 1 article: "Le Père d'Anatole France, Noël France (1806-1890)", 12 p. from Bulletin du bibliophile. The 3rd year is extremely rare (no. 3 was seized before it went on sale) and marks the end of this magazine. The 1st cover of No. 1 of this 3rd year bears this signed autograph letter: "Mon cher Couët, il faut que je soit bien respectueux du bien d'autrui pour n'avoir pas déchiré ces trois livraisons au lieu de les signer, À vous tout de même, Anatole France, 1917."