75 - BLANC (François), known as LA GOUTTE. Poems in the Dauphiné Dialect. Grenoble: Malhérou. Illustrations by D. Rahoult and numerous woodcuts by E. Dardelet. Preface by George Sand. Grenoble: Rahoult and Dardelet, 1864. - Poems in the Dauphiné Dialect. Drawings by D. Rahoult, woodcuts by Dardelet. Preface and glossary by Michel-Ladichère (also includes a copy of a letter written by Blanc to one of his friends regarding the flooding of Grenoble on Dec. 20, 1740). Ibid., id., 1874. Set of 3 parts in-4 bound in one vol. in-4, green half-maroquin with corner pieces, spine with five raised bands, decorated and inlaid, no. r., cover and spine consolidated (Noulhac).

BLANC (François), known as LA GOUTTE. Poems in the Dauphiné Dialect. Grenoble: Malhérou. Illustrations by D. Rahoult and numerous woodcuts by E. Dardelet. Preface by George Sand. Grenoble: Rahoult and Dardelet, 1864. - Poems in the Dauphiné Dialect. Drawings by D. Rahoult, woodcuts by Dardelet. Preface and glossary by Michel-Ladichère (also includes a copy of a letter written by Blanc to one of his friends regarding the flooding of Grenoble on Dec. 20, 1740). Ibid., id., 1874. Set of 3 parts in-4 bound in one vol. in-4, green half-maroquin with corner pieces, spine with five raised bands, decorated and inlaid, no. r., cover and spine consolidated (Noulhac). FIRST EDITION of the 244 delightful woodcut vignettes in the text. All of old Grenoble and the Dauphiné come to life here in these illustrations, which make this book one of the most beautiful illustrated volumes of the 19th century—a work whose publication was praised by Victor Hugo and J. Janin (See Mongland: “Le Romantisme des rapins à Grenoble,” in *Pèlerinage romantique*, Corti, 1968). These poems were first published in 1733. The author, François Blanc (1662–1742), known as La Goutte, was a grocer from Grenoble, “a man of means and afflicted by gout.” ONE OF THE EXTREMELY RARE COPIES ON CHINESE PAPER, printed on one side only, featuring a remarkable reproduction of the illustrations (paper not mentioned by Vicaire). Copy in mint condition, perfectly bound. From the library of President Mercier (ex-libris). Vicaire I, 812–813. Carteret III, 95–96.