[BAILLET DE SAINT JULIEN (L.-G.)]. - Lot 73

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[BAILLET DE SAINT JULIEN (L.-G.)]. - Lot 73
[BAILLET DE SAINT JULIEN (L.-G.)]. COLLECTION of texts and verses. Various texts including his poem on Painting in original edition and small curiosas. Small in-8. Contemporary lightly marbled fawn calf, smooth spine decorated, red edges. The genesis of art criticism in 18th-century France. Guillaume Baillet de Saint- Julien (1726-1795), author of several "salons" and the first French poem on painting, was a critic and collector, and a lover of drawing, engraving and French galant painting. A friend of Saint-Aubin, he built up a specialized library on painting. Driven mad, he died forgotten by all, including art historians. -Collection of poems by various authors, 1759, including Baillet. -Satires nouvelles et autres pièces de littérature. London, 1754. 42 pp. First edition of this collection. -Fugitive pieces of literature. Pensées critiques, philologiques et morales. London, 1754. First edition of this collection, including the EO of his poem on painting. -The very rare Supplément... à ses oeuvres. Venice (fictitious address), 1759. Libertine verse with engraved vignette with "figure libre" (coitus). No record in the CCFr. Absent from Gay-Lemonnier. Early period or early 19th century annotations in pen to titles and MS title at beginning.
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