BIBLIOGRAPHY CURIOSA. The Apostle Bibliographer... - Lot 225 - Marie-Saint Germain

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BIBLIOGRAPHY CURIOSA. The Apostle Bibliographer... - Lot 225 - Marie-Saint Germain
BIBLIOGRAPHY CURIOSA. The Apostle Bibliographer [Antoine LAPORTE]. Clerical and Gallant Bibliography. Gallant or singular works on love, women, marriage, theatre, etc. Written by Abbots, Priests, Canons, Religious, Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals and Popes. M-A. Laporte, bookseller, 1879. In-8 of xxviii, 178 pages, half-basane, spine with false nerves decorated, speckled edges (old binding). "Let us quote Laporte, page III, whom we shall soon find again, Laporte, whose name is crippled, and who is still called the Apostle, not in memory of the first vocation attributed to him, for he was never a defrocked man, but because he published the Yellow Bibliography, the Clerical-Galvanic Bibliography, under the name of the Apostle Bibliographer. His publisher's mark showed, printed below a half-open door, these singular words: A. Laporte, la porte. A real type, that one, with his important face of Father Hyacinthe Loyson with a moustache, always covered with his hat, his mouth bitter, his air of discontent and rogue ... and talkative ... a real blessing. All this hardly goes together: bitter-mouthed and talkative, with a disgruntled and rogue air ... a real blessing. But this literary man, used to marrying more rebellious and irreconcilable words, does not embarrass himself for so little. Quai Malaquais boasts one of the first literary critics of the time, a bibliographer of the highest calibre... We are talking about Antoine Laporte, already mentioned in the previous chapter. Without disdaining the luster given by the surrounding places, he knows, without a doubt, that it carries within itself 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, sparing of it, and it is not on the first buyer who comes that he will pour the flow of his lights (what fiat lux). He only commiserates with those in whom he believes he senses serious scholars (that is why I have never sensed him), amateurs with science and taste. It is only with these, in fact, that he has pleasure and honour in triumphing, and he always triumphs...". Octave Uzanne quoted in Laporte, Les Bouquinistes et les Quais de Paris tels qu'ils sont Réfutation du Pamphlet d'O. Uzanne, le Monsieur de ces Dames à l'Éventail, à l'Ombrelle, etc., chez tous les bouquinistes des quais, dans les boîtes à prix divers, Paris, 1893. These two did not like each other very much.
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