[Antoine Perrin] - Almanach de la Librairie - 1778

The original edition of this rare and curious Almanac attributed to Antoine Perrin (see Barbier), devoted to the bookselling trade, of interest to historians and genealogists.

Contents:
1st. The names of the ministers and magistrates who head the library, those of the censors and the inspectors.
2°. A concise treatise of the formalities one must fulfill in order to obtain the various permissions to print, to import foreign books, to follow the proceedings pending before the Commission or the Council, and finally of what must be done to be admitted as a bookseller or printer.
3. A table of all the booksellers and printers in Paris and in the Kingdom.
4th. A table of the booksellers in the main cities of Europe.
5°. A list of engravers of history, landscapes, and portraits, based in Paris, followed by that of the merchants of prints and drawings.
6. The names and addresses of the engravers in letters and in music, and those of the music dealers in Paris and in the principal cities of the Kingdom.
7. Book fairs.
8. The departure of the mail-coaches, the water-coaches, and the wagoners; and finally the new regulations.

Preserved in an antique binding in full marbled calfskin, with a smooth spine adorned with gold fillets, fleurons and small tooling, the title label in brown leather with gilded lettering, red edges.
Beautiful copy, well preserved. Spine rubbed, fragment of the headcap torn off, start of a crack at the first spine section (1 cm). Paper slightly yellowed, tiny worm trails on the first 30 leaves, rare foxing.


[Antoine Perrin]
The Bookstore Almanac
In Paris: At Moutard's, MDCCLXXVIII (1778)
in-12 (14.5 x 8 cm); of [2], 207, [5] pages