517 - [PRÉVOST (Jean) ?]. *Les Fanfares ou Courvées abbadesques des Roule-Bontemps de la Haute et Basse Coquaigne et dépendances*. Verbatim reprint, preceded by an Introduction. Paris, Jules Gay, 1863. 12mo, havana calfskin, ribbed spine, combed edges (contemporary binding). Binding heavily damaged.

[PRÉVOST (Jean) ?]. *Les Fanfares ou Courvées abbadesques des Roule-Bontemps de la Haute et Basse Coquaigne et dépendances*. Verbatim reprint, preceded by an Introduction. Paris, Jules Gay, 1863. 12mo, havana calfskin, ribbed spine, combed edges (contemporary binding). Binding heavily damaged. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies (no. 14), plus two copies bound in vellum. Facsimile of the original 1613 title page. Introduction by Pierre-Gustave Brunet. The attribution to the alchemist Jean Prévost, proposed by Paul Lacroix, remains disputed. As an aside, the first edition (printed in Chambéry by Pierre Dufour in 1613) is best known for having indirectly given its name to the so-called “à la fanfare” bindings, whose beautiful small-metal-stamp decorations characterize French bookbinding of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Around 1829, Joseph Thouvenin created a binding for Charles Nodier, inspired by these early models, for a copy of the original 1613 edition, from which the name was borrowed.