Directions pour la conscience d’un roi, ou Examen de conscience sur les devoirs de la royauté.
Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1825.
In-12 (190 x 110 mm), lemon half calf with corners, ornate spine with title and “Papier de paille”, untrimmed; small tear to board (Thouvenin).
New edition published in small numbers by Antoine-Augustin Renouard and printed by Paul Renouard, rue de l'Hirondelle.
This work was the pretext for the first separate publication of the Lettre à Louis XIV, whose original manuscript had recently been purchased at public auction by Antoine-Augustin Renouard (February 26, 1825). This acquisition removed all doubt as to the authenticity of this famous letter.
The illustration consists of three portraits of Fénelon, Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon, and a facsimile of the manuscript.
Copy printed on straw paper, with a handwritten note from a Renouard: “this volume is printed entirely on straw paper. R.”.
The catalog of Antoine-Augustin Renouard's library (Potier, 1854) indicates that for this work “few copies have been printed, both on this paper [vellum] and on another kind also white vellum paper, although made of straw.”
As for the portraits, they were printed on vergé (straw?) paper, and the facsimile of the letter on the same paper as the text, on papier vélin de paille.
There are few examples of other works printed on straw paper in Renouard's library catalog.
A very rare specimen of straw wove paper chosen by Antoine-Augustin Renouard as bibliophilic paper.
Catalogue d'une précieuse collection de livres, manuscrits, autographes, dessins et gravures composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Antoine-Augustin Renouard. Paris, Potier, 1854. n°82 and 83 (both stitched)
Librairie Paul Jammes. Catalogue n°308. Antoine-Augustin Renouard, bibliophile. n°11.
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