DUPLESSIS (Georges) - Lot 127

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DUPLESSIS (Georges) - Lot 127
DUPLESSIS (Georges) Signed autograph letter to a fellow bibliographer. Paris, July 22, 1881. 2 pp., in-8 on laid paper. A very interesting letter addressed to a colleague working on Étienne Delaune, in which Georges Duplessis, then curator of the Print Room at the National Library, learns that his correspondent is preparing a catalog of the famous Renaissance engraver’s work. In a remarkable spirit of scholarly camaraderie, he decides to abandon his own project and offers to make his unpublished manuscript, as well as the notes he has been compiling for several years, available to his colleague: “I understand that you are preparing a catalog of Étienne Delaune’s work... Would it be indiscreet to ask whether, in the event that you have no plans to proceed with it, I might make use of the scholarly monograph you have compiled? (...) The abandoned manuscript would be of immense help to you.” This document provides valuable insight into the working methods of 19th-century art historians and the preparation of the first catalogs raisonnés devoted to French engravers. Beautiful signature. Provenance: former autograph collection.
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