CURIOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Apostle Bibliographer... - Lot 245 - Marie-Saint Germain

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CURIOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Apostle Bibliographer... - Lot 245 - Marie-Saint Germain
CURIOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Apostle Bibliographer [Antoine LAPORTE]. Clerico-galant bibliography. Gallant or singular works on love, women, marriage, theater, etc.. Written by Abbots, Priests, Canons, Religious, Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals and Popes. M-A. Laporte, bookseller-bookstore owner, 1879. In-8 of xxviii, 178 pages, Bradel-style cardboard (modern binding). "Let us quote Laporte, page III, that we will soon find again, Laporte, whose name is crippled, and who is still called the Apostle, not in memory of the first vocation that he was attributed, because he was never a defrocked man, but because he published the Bibliographie jaune, the Bibliographie clérico-galante, under the name of the Apostle bibliographer. His publisher's mark showed, printed, under a half-open door, these singular words: A. Laporte, the door. A real guy, this one, with his important face of P. Hyacinth Loyson moustached, always covered with his hat, bitter mouth, displeased and roguish air ... and disert and talkative ... a real blessing. "All this hardly goes together: bitter mouth and talkative and bitter, disgruntled and roguish air ... a real blessing. But this writer, accustomed to marrying more rebellious and irreconcilable words, does not embarrass himself for so little. The Quai Malaquais boasts one of the first literary critics of the time, a high-flying bibliographer ... We want to talk about Antoine Laporte, already named in the previous chapter. Without disdaining the lustre given by the surrounding places, he knows, without a doubt, that he carries within himself the source of its brilliance and its radiance (he knows what he wanted to write me, I do not understand what he means). He is, moreover, careful, and it is not on the first buyer that he will pour the flow of his lights (what a fiat lux). He only commits himself with those in whom he thinks he feels serious scholars (that's why I've never felt it), amateurs with
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